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>CREATE EXTENSION</H1
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><H2
>Name</H2
>CREATE EXTENSION -- install an extension</DIV
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><H2
>Synopsis</H2
><PRE
CLASS="SYNOPSIS"
>CREATE EXTENSION [ IF NOT EXISTS ] <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>extension_name</I
></TT
>
[ WITH ] [ SCHEMA <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>schema_name</I
></TT
> ]
[ VERSION <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>version</I
></TT
> ]
[ FROM <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>old_version</I
></TT
> ]</PRE
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><H2
>Description</H2
><P
> <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE EXTENSION</TT
> loads a new extension into the current
database. There must not be an extension of the same name already loaded.
</P
><P
> Loading an extension essentially amounts to running the extension's script
file. The script will typically create new <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>SQL</ACRONYM
> objects such as
functions, data types, operators and index support methods.
<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE EXTENSION</TT
> additionally records the identities
of all the created objects, so that they can be dropped again if
<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>DROP EXTENSION</TT
> is issued.
</P
><P
> Loading an extension requires the same privileges that would be
required to create its component objects. For most extensions this
means superuser or database owner privileges are needed.
The user who runs <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE EXTENSION</TT
> becomes the
owner of the extension for purposes of later privilege checks, as well
as the owner of any objects created by the extension's script.
</P
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><A
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></A
><H2
>Parameters</H2
><P
></P
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><DL
><DT
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>IF NOT EXISTS</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> Do not throw an error if an extension with the same name already
exists. A notice is issued in this case. Note that there is no
guarantee that the existing extension is anything like the one that
would have been created from the currently-available script file.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>extension_name</I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> The name of the extension to be
installed. <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> will create the
extension using details from the file
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>SHAREDIR/extension/</TT
><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>extension_name</I
></TT
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>.control</TT
>.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>schema_name</I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> The name of the schema in which to install the extension's
objects, given that the extension allows its contents to be
relocated. The named schema must already exist.
If not specified, and the extension's control file does not specify a
schema either, the current default object creation schema is used.
</P
><P
> Remember that the extension itself is not considered to be within any
schema: extensions have unqualified names that must be unique
database-wide. But objects belonging to the extension can be within
schemas.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>version</I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> The version of the extension to install. This can be written as
either an identifier or a string literal. The default version is
whatever is specified in the extension's control file.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>old_version</I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>FROM</TT
> <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>old_version</I
></TT
>
must be specified when, and only when, you are attempting to install
an extension that replaces an <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"old style"</SPAN
> module that is just
a collection of objects not packaged into an extension. This option
causes <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE EXTENSION</TT
> to run an alternative installation
script that absorbs the existing objects into the extension, instead
of creating new objects. Be careful that <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>SCHEMA</TT
> specifies
the schema containing these pre-existing objects.
</P
><P
> The value to use for <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>old_version</I
></TT
> is determined by the
extension's author, and might vary if there is more than one version
of the old-style module that can be upgraded into an extension.
For the standard additional modules supplied with pre-9.1
<SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
>, use <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>unpackaged</TT
>
for <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>old_version</I
></TT
> when
updating a module to extension style.
</P
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></A
><H2
>Notes</H2
><P
> Before you can use <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE EXTENSION</TT
> to load an extension
into a database, the extension's supporting files must be installed.
Information about installing the extensions supplied with
<SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> can be found in
<A
HREF="contrib.html"
>Additional Supplied Modules</A
>.
</P
><P
> The extensions currently available for loading can be identified from the
<A
HREF="view-pg-available-extensions.html"
><TT
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>pg_available_extensions</TT
></A
>
or
<A
HREF="view-pg-available-extension-versions.html"
><TT
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>pg_available_extension_versions</TT
></A
>
system views.
</P
><P
> For information about writing new extensions, see
<A
HREF="extend-extensions.html"
>Section 35.15</A
>.
</P
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><A
NAME="AEN68251"
></A
><H2
>Examples</H2
><P
> Install the <A
HREF="hstore.html"
>hstore</A
> extension into the
current database:
</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>CREATE EXTENSION hstore;</PRE
><P>
</P
><P
> Update a pre-9.1 installation of <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>hstore</TT
> into
extension style:
</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>CREATE EXTENSION hstore SCHEMA public FROM unpackaged;</PRE
><P>
Be careful to specify the schema in which you installed the existing
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>hstore</TT
> objects.
</P
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><A
NAME="AEN68260"
></A
><H2
>Compatibility</H2
><P
> <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE EXTENSION</TT
> is a <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
>
extension.
</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN68265"
></A
><H2
>See Also</H2
><A
HREF="sql-alterextension.html"
>ALTER EXTENSION</A
>, <A
HREF="sql-dropextension.html"
>DROP EXTENSION</A
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