# Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 12.4 (2020-09-11)
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is a collection of tools to assist you in managing PostgreSQL. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL
installs PostgreSQL and complements it by a selection of extensions that
enable solving essential practical tasks efficiently:
| Extension | Version | Description |
| ------------------- | -------------- | ---------------------------- |
| [pg_repack](https://github.com/reorg/pg_repack) | 1.4.5 | rebuilds PostgreSQL database objects |
| [Pgaudit](https://www.pgaudit.org/) | 1.4.0 | provides detailed session or object audit logging via the standard logging facility provided by PostgreSQL |
| [pgBackRest](https://pgbackrest.org/) | 2.29 | a backup and restore solution for PostgreSQL |
| [Patroni](https://patroni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) | 2.0.0 | a HA (High Availability) solution for PostgreSQL |
| [PostgreSQL contrib extensions](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/contrib.html) | 12.4 | a collection of additional extensions for PostgreSQL |
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is also shipped with the [libpq](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/libpq.html) library. It contains “a set of
library functions that allow client programs to pass queries to the PostgreSQL
backend server and to receive the results of these queries.”
This release of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is based on PostgreSQL 12.4.