faker

Overview

PGDG 1st Party Extension: faker : Wrapper for the Faker Python library

Information

• Extension ID: 3210
• Extension Name: faker
• Package Name: faker
• Category: LANG
• License: PostgreSQL
• Website: https://github.com/anpandu/postgresql_faker
• Language: Python
• Extra Tags: test
• Comment: N/A

Metadata

• Latest Version: 0.5.3
• Postgres Support: 17,16,15,14,13
• Need Load: Shared library do not need explicit loading
• Need DDL: Need CREATE EXTENSION DDL
• Relocatable: Unknown
• Trusted: Untrusted, Require Superuser to Create
• Schemas: N/A
• Requires: N/A

RPM / DEB

• RPM Repo: PGDG
• RPM Name: postgresql_faker_$v*
• RPM Ver : 0.5.3
• RPM Deps: N/A
• DEB Repo: None
• DEB Name: N/A
• DEB Ver : N/A
• DEB Deps: N/A

Availability

Installation

Install faker via the pig CLI tool:

pig ext install faker

Install faker via Pigsty playbook:

./pgsql.yml -t pg_extension -e '{"pg_extensions": ["faker"]}' # -l <cls>

Install faker RPM from YUM repo directly:

dnf install postgresql_faker_17*;
dnf install postgresql_faker_16*;
dnf install postgresql_faker_15*;
dnf install postgresql_faker_14*;
dnf install postgresql_faker_13*;

Create faker extension on PostgreSQL cluster:

CREATE EXTENSION faker;