Provides deflate, inflate, gzip, and Brotli compression functions for bytea, text, json, and jsonb.
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| Package | pgcompress |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.0 |
| Repository | Unspecified |
| Extension type | Standard |
| Project status | Unmaintained |
| Requires CREATE EXTENSION | Yes |
| Requires preload | No |
| Trusted | No |
| Relocatable | Yes |
| Stars | 3 |
| Latest commit | 2020-07-17 |
| Catalogue updated | 2026-08-30 |
| compress | C/C++ functions to compress text into Base64-encoded ZIP archives and extract text from them. |
| jsonbd | Compression method for JSONB type |
| postile | A pgrx PostgreSQL extension for map-tile generation helpers and gzip/Brotli bytea compression. |
| flate | Raw DEFLATE compression and decompression functions for bytea |
| zson | Dictionary-trained compressed JSONB-compatible type with transparent casts and JSONB operators. |
| gunzip | Decompress gzip-compressed bytea values to text or bytea. |
| gzip | gzip and gunzip functions. |
| zstd | Zstandard compression algorithm implementation in PostgreSQL |
| bzip | Bzip compression and decompression |
| pg_lz4 | LZ4 compression access method for a patched PostgreSQL development branch. |