Convert is a Postgres extension providing common conversion functions, such as meters to feet or miles to kilometers.

The convert extension is built using the Rust pgrx framework.

Currently no pre-packaged installers are available. The following steps walk through creating a package on a typical Ubuntu based system with Postgres 14. These steps assume cargo pgrx is already installed.

The fpm step requires the fpm Ruby gem.

sudo apt install ruby-rubygems sudo gem i fpm

Timing note: cargo pgrx package takes ~ 2 minutes on my main dev machine.

cargo pgrx package --pg-config /usr/lib/postgresql/15/bin/pg_config cd target/release/convert-pg15/ find ./ -name "*.so" -exec strip {} \; OUTFILE=convert.deb rm ${OUTFILE} || true fpm \ -s dir \ -t deb -n convert \ -v 0.0.4 \ --deb-no-default-config-files \ -p ${OUTFILE} \ -a amd64 \ . sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite ./convert.deb