The extensions that we have described so far are all part of the PostgreSQL contrib package, which is shipped as part of the PostgreSQL source code. However, the packages that we've looked at here aren't the only ones that are available in the PostgreSQL community. There are many more packages that allow us to do all kinds of things.
Unfortunately, this chapter is too short to dig into everything that is currently out there. The number of modules is growing daily, and it is impossible to cover them all. Therefore, I only want to point out the ones I find the most important.
PostGIS (http://postgis.net/) is the geographical information system (GIS) database interface in the open source world. It has been adopted around the globe and is a de facto standard in the relational open source database world. It is a professional and extremely powerful solution.
If you are looking for geospatial routing, pgRouting is what you might be looking for. It offers various...
