# Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 12.6 (2021-03-09)


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        <a class="reference external" href="https://www.percona.com/doc/postgresql/12/installing.html#">Installing Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL</a></td>
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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.

This release of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is based on [PostgreSQL 12.6](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/12.6/).

The following is the list of extensions available in Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL.


| Extension           | Version        | Description                  |
| ------------------- | -------------- | ---------------------------- |
| [pg_repack](https://github.com/reorg/pg_repack) | 1.4.6   | rebuilds PostgreSQL database objects           |
| [Pgaudit](https://www.pgaudit.org/)             | 1.4.1   | provides detailed session or object audit logging via the standard logging facility provided by PostgreSQL                |
| [pgBackRest](https://pgbackrest.org/)           | 2.30    | a backup and restore solution for PostgreSQL       |
| [Patroni](https://patroni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) | 2.0.1 | a HA (High Availability) solution for PostgreSQL |
| [pg_stat_monitor](https://github.com/percona/pg_stat_monitor) (Tech Preview Feature)                                              | 0.6.0   | collects and aggregates statistics for PostgreSQL and provides histogram information.       |
| [PostgreSQL contrib extensions](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/contrib.html)                             | 12.6   | 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."