# Bring Your Own Extensions to Serverless PostgreSQL

DevFeed: [Bring Your Own Extensions to Serverless PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/bring-your-own-extensions-to-serverless-postgresql-5055.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/bring-your-own-extensions-to-serverless-postgresql>)

Author: Anastasia Lubennikova

Published: 2024-01-17T14:07:36Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [C++](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/c-plus-plus.md>)

Tags: [c](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/c.md>), [c-plus-plus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/c-plus-plus.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [extensions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/extensions.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>)

## AI overview

Neon announces beta, request-only support for private and custom PostgreSQL extensions through Dynamic Extension Loading in its serverless environment. The article introduces the feature, extension types, and deployment considerations for ephemeral compute instances.

## Source excerpt

Extensions in PostgreSQL are comparable to libraries in programming languages or plugins in web browsers. They are pivotal in the PostgreSQL ecosystem, providing additional functionalities ranging from encryption and AI to handling time series and geospatial data. More complex ex...