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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 wal_level needs to be set to logical and there needs to be an available output plugin. Unfortunately, PostgreSQL only comes with the test_decoding 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. It may…
37 votes -
Temporal Tables PostgreSQL Extension
Support temporal tables extension to provide part of the features similar to SQL Server Temporal Tables.
24 votes -
PGAudit extension
Add PGAudit extension
23 votesstarted ·
AdminAzure Database for PostgreSQL Product Team
(Product Owner, Microsoft Azure)
responded
We’ve started work on integrating the pgaudit extension into Azure Database for PostgreSQL. We would love to share our plans for this extension with you and hear your requirements and feedback. Please email us postgresqluservoice at microsoft.com if you’d be willing to provide your input.
Best,
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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.test_parser is available on Amazon RDS
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_PostgreSQL.html22 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
21 votes -
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
pg_squeeze 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 pg_repack [1] extension.20 votes -
pg_cron extension
Include pg_cron in order to schedule periodic maintenance tasks.
17 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
17 votes -
PostGIS 2.5
Please upgrade PostGIS 2.4 to PostGIS 2.5 on PostgreSQL 10. Several new features were introduced in PostGIS 2.5 which speeds up spatial calculations.
11 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.
11 votes -
Support pg_prometheus extension
It's a perfect fit together with timescaledb-extension if you have prometheus running in AKS
8 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.
8 votes -
agensgraph extension
Support graph extension to postgresql
7 votes -
Implement PL/.NET Core for Stored Procedures, Triggers, and Functions in PostgreSQL
Implement PL/.NET Core support which will allow for Stored Procedures, Triggers, and Functions in PostgreSQL to be written in .NET Core
6 votes -
6 votes
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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.
5 votes -
MADlib
Machine learning, statistics and analytics for data scientists
http://madlib.incubator.apache.org/5 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).
4 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/
3 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.
3 votes
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