PGXN Client

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===================================================================== PGXN Client

A command line tool to interact with the PostgreSQL Extension Network

The PGXN Client <https://pgxn.github.io/pgxnclient/>__ is a command line tool designed to interact with the PostgreSQL Extension Network <https://pgxn.org/>__ allowing searching, compiling, installing, and removing extensions in PostgreSQL databases.

For example, to install the semver_ extension, the client can be invoked as::

$ pgxn install semver

which would download and compile the extension for one of the PostgreSQL servers hosted on the machine and::

$ pgxn load -d somedb semver

which would load the extension in one of the databases of the server.

The client interacts with the PGXN web service and a Makefile provided by the extension. The best results are achieved with makefiles using the PostgreSQL Extension Building Infrastructure__; however the client tries to degrade gracefully in presence of any package hosted on PGXN.

.. _semver: https://pgxn.org/dist/semver .. __: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/extend-pgxs.html

Please refer to the files in the docs directory or online__ for instructions about the program installation and usage.

Development

You can create a local development environment with::

virtualenv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .[dev]

and run pytest to run the test suite.

.. __: https://pgxn.github.io/pgxnclient/