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PG Extension Cloud: Unlocking PostgreSQL’s Entire Ecosystem

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Free, open, no VPN. Install PostgreSQL and 431 extensions on 14 Linux distros × 6 PG versions via native RPM/DEB—and a tiny CLI.

Postgres Extension Day - See You There!

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The annual PostgreSQL developer conference will be held in Montreal in May. Like the first PG Con.Dev, there’s also an additional dedicated event - Postgres Extensions Day

The Ideal Way to Deliver PostgreSQL Extensions

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

PostgreSQL is eating the database world through extensibility. This post introduces the Pigsty extension repository, which packaged 390 PostgreSQL extensions at launch and keeps growing through the Pigsty extension catalog.

New PostgreSQL Ecosystem Player: ParadeDB

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

ParadeDB aims to be an Elasticsearch alternative: “Modern Elasticsearch Alternative built on Postgres” — PostgreSQL for search and analytics.

FerretDB: PostgreSQL Disguised as MongoDB

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

FerretDB aims to provide a truly open-source MongoDB alternative based on PostgreSQL.

AI Large Models and Vector Database PGVector

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This article focuses on vector databases hyped by AI, introduces the basic principles of AI embeddings and vector storage/retrieval, and demonstrates the functionality, performance, acquisition, and application of the vector database extension PGVECTOR through a concrete knowledge base retrieval case study.

Incident: PostgreSQL Extension Installation Causes Connection Failure

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Today encountered an interesting case where a customer reported database connection issues caused by extensions.

Getting Started with PipelineDB

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

PipelineDB is a PostgreSQL extension for streaming analytics. Here’s how to install it and build continuous views over live data.

TimescaleDB Quick Start

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

TimescaleDB is a PostgreSQL extension plugin that provides time-series database functionality.

GeoIP Geographic Reverse Lookup Optimization

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

A common requirement in application development is GeoIP conversion - converting source IP addresses to geographic coordinates or administrative divisions (country-state-city-county-town-village)

The Versatile file_fdw — Reading System Information from Your Database

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

With file_fdw, you can easily view operating system information, fetch network data, and feed various data sources into your database for unified viewing and management.

Installing PostGIS from Source

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

PostGIS is PostgreSQL’s killer extension, but compiling and installing it isn’t easy.

PostgreSQL MongoFDW Installation and Deployment

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Sat, 28 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Recently had business requirements to access MongoDB through PostgreSQL FDW, but compiling MongoDB FDW is really a nightmare.