btree_gist

Overview

CONTRIB Built-in Extension: btree_gist : support for indexing common datatypes in GiST

Information

• Extension ID: 4940
• Extension Name: btree_gist
• Package Name: None
• Category: FUNC
• License: PostgreSQL
• Website: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/btree-gist.html
• Language: C
• Extra Tags: N/A
• Comment: N/A

Metadata

• Latest Version: 1.7
• Postgres Support: 17,16,15,14,13
• Need Load: Shared library do not need explicit loading
• Need DDL: Need CREATE EXTENSION DDL
• Relocatable: Unknown
• Trusted: Trusted, Can be created by user with CREATE Privilege
• Schemas: N/A
• Requires: N/A

RPM / DEB

PostgreSQL Built-in Contrib Extension

Availability

Installation

Extension btree_gist is PostgreSQL Built-in Contrib Extension which is installed along with the kernel/contrib.

Install btree_gist RPM from YUM repo directly:

dnf install postgresql17-contrib;
dnf install postgresql16-contrib;
dnf install postgresql15-contrib;
dnf install postgresql14-contrib;
dnf install postgresql13-contrib;

Install btree_gist DEB from APT repo directly:

apt install postgresql-17;
apt install postgresql-16;
apt install postgresql-15;
apt install postgresql-14;
apt install postgresql-13;

Create btree_gist extension on PostgreSQL cluster:

CREATE EXTENSION btree_gist;