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pg_cron extension
Include pg_cron in order to schedule periodic maintenance tasks.
80 votes -
Ability to output data changes via logical decoding (ex. wal2json)
PostgreSQL, since 9.4, has the ability to provide the list of changes made to a database in a manner that is transaction-safe and lossless.
To enable this feature, the wallevel needs to be set to logical and there needs to be an available output plugin. Unfortunately, PostgreSQL only comes with the testdecoding plugin, which was only really meant as an example.
AWS for example, has included wal2json support:
The simple wal2json output plugin would be a good way to provide access to this powerful feature for a wide audience.
I'd also be fine with other output plugins.…
45 votesstarted ·
AdminAzure Database for PostgreSQL Product Team
(Product Owner, Microsoft Azure)
responded
Logical decoding and the wal2json output plugin are now available in preview on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – single server. Please visit the documentation for more information: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/postgresql/concepts-logical
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PostGIS 3.0
PostGIS 3.0 is currently in alpha. It adds support for parallels processing of spatial queries which drastically increases the performance of spatial queries and makes PostGIS more inline with other advanced spatial databases. Please upgrade to this version of PostGIS when it is fully released.
37 votes -
Temporal Tables PostgreSQL Extension
Support temporal tables extension to provide part of the features similar to SQL Server Temporal Tables.
34 votes -
Add support for auto_explain to collect access plans of the slow queries
auto_expalin would help us collect access plans of the queries which exceed a threshold of the query execution time.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/auto-explain.html
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PGAudit extension
Add PGAudit extension
32 votesstarted ·AdminAzure Database for PostgreSQL Product Team
(Product Owner, Microsoft Azure)
responded
pgAudit is now in public preview on Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Thank you for your support of this feature.
For more information: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/postgresql/concepts-audit
Best,
Rachel, on behalf of the Azure Database for PostgreSQL team -
pg_squeeze is an extension that removes unused space from a table and optionally sorts tuples according to particular index
https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/pg_squeeze
pgsqueeze is an extension that removes unused space from a table and
optionally sorts tuples according to particular index (as if CLUSTER [2]
command was executed concurrently with regular reads / writes). In fact we try
to replace pgrepack [1] extension.25 votes -
pgagent extension
We need to run regular maintenance tasks on our database, which we usually perform with pgagent https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin3/1.22/pgagent.html
Pgagent will be installed as a service on the application server, but for pgagent to work we need the pgagent extension deployed in the application database, see also https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin3/1.22/pgagent-install.html#database-setup
24 votes -
Need test_parser extension
We are using tsvector for full text search.
And we want to use test_parser extension.Although test_parser's doc says "It doesn't do anything especially useful".
It is actually very useful when using custom tokenizer.testparser is available on Amazon RDS
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAPPostgreSQL.html22 votes -
Support pg_prometheus extension
It's a perfect fit together with timescaledb-extension if you have prometheus running in AKS
21 votes -
Please add timescaledb 1.6.0 extension
Currently Microsoft only allows TimescaleDB 1.3.2. Please add 1.6.0 as an option.
17 votes -
Add "pgpointcloud" extension support.
Request for support for the pgpointcloud extension in Azure PostgreSQL databases.
https://github.com/pgpointcloud/pointcloud
Would also be useful to have the optional compression features included. These require libght (https://github.com/pramsey/libght/) and lazperf (https://github.com/hobu/laz-perf).
16 votes -
Support for tds_fdw
https://github.com/tds-fdw/tds_fdw
This is a PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper that can connect to databases that use the Tabular Data Stream (TDS) protocol, such as Sybase databases and Microsoft SQL server.
14 votes -
Support for Custom Full Text Search Dictionaries
PostgreSQL supports so many great full text search capabilities that can be really handy in small to mid sized applications without adding the extra overhead of separate search services.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/textsearch-dictionaries.html
When self-hosting PG you can add custom dictionaries, with custom synonym, thesaurus, stop word, and other stemming definitions. Currently Azure hosted PostgreSQL doesn't support this, as you'd need access to upload language and dictionary files to use in those definitions. For example, if you want a solid spellchecker via ispell or hunspell you can download those extensions and place them in the $SHAREDIR/tsearch_data directory on the PG server.
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Include pg_repack feature for azure database of postgresql
It will be helpful if we have pgrepack feature in azure database for postgresql to handle bloat.vacuum full will place an exclusive lock on the table and until the vacuum full is completed the transactions related to that table will be held if the vacuum full is performed at table level.So pgrepack is the alternate option where the reorg of table can be performed with out impacting any ongoing transactions.Performing repack during the time when there are less number of transactions to that table will decrease the overhead and can be able to handle bloat in efficient way.
12 votes -
Add "ogr-fwd" support extension.
https://github.com/pramsey/pgsql-ogr-fdw
OGR is the vector half of the GDAL spatial data access library. It allows access to a large number of GIS data formats using a simple C API for data reading and writing.
12 votes -
agensgraph extension
Support graph extension to postgresql
11 votes -
Support for PGroonga
PGroonga is a PostgreSQL extension to use Groonga as the index, and make PostgreSQL fast full text search platform for all languages (such as Japanese and Chinese).
PGroonga: https://pgroonga.github.io/
Groonga: http://groonga.org/
10 votes -
zhparser extension for Chinese Full Text Search
We would like to be able to use https://github.com/amutu/zhparser in order to implement Chinese Full Text Search.
9 votes -
pgTAP support for application testing
We are working on migrating our app to Azure, and our app has unit/regression tests with using pgTAP [1].
I would like Azure PostgreSQL to support pgTAP to allow us for application compatibility test.
8 votes
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