Chapter 25. Contributed Modules
Most of the software that I've described in this book is considered to be part of the core PostgreSQL distribution. The core distribution is managed by the core development team—a small, well-organized, and highly-dedicated team of professional developers and designers. But there are a huge number of developers that contribute software to the PostgreSQL community. Some of the contributed packages are included in the core distribution (in the contrib directory) and you can find many others at the PgFoundry and Gborg web sites (www.pgfoundry.org and gborg.postgresql.org).
Contributed software is a broad term that describes open-source software designed to work with PostgreSQL. That includes everything from graphical ...
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