Canfor
25-Minute Talk
Extensions are PostgreSQL's superpower—but only if users can actually get them. PGDG ships ~150 packages; over 1,000 exist in the wild. This gap limits PostgreSQL's potential.
That's why I spent two years building the pgext.cloud project: a unified, open infrastructure for packaging, indexing, building, and delivering extensions. It now ships 440+ signed Linux-native packages for 14 distros, serves ~1M downloads/month, and maintains PGDG compatibility across 6 major versions—fixing dozens of extension break issues along the way.
This talk is for extension authors wanting broader reach, core hackers testing patch compatibility, DBAs tired of compiling from source, and vendors evaluating reusable components.
I'll cover: extension statistics and what they reveal about real usage; the architecture—catalog for discovery, repository for delivery, and PIG CLI for easy access; how builds are managed; and how AI tooling helps with packaging and maintenance.
