In this chapter, we have tried to show some extensions and some tools available for PostgreSQL. We chose not to give a rundown of everything that is available for PostgreSQL but instead to look specifically at some tools and extensions. We have talked in more detail about pgbackrest, which is a very useful tool for managing recovery and PITR. We also talked about how to do like searches using GIN indices and how to connect PostgreSQL to other data sources using foreign data wrappers. We saw a different way of using GIN indices in order to have a feature present on Oracle using the btree_gin extension.
In the next chapter, we will look at the next stage of the evolution of PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL 13.
