Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

Environment variable to activate extensions

Open
#1,334 3 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, postgresql
Domain
databases, devops

Research direction

Start by reviewing how the PostgreSQL Docker image handles environment variables and extension setup; the issue names no file or test. Determine whether extensions such as postgis or pgvecto can be activated through a variable supplied to the image, and define the expected configuration and completion criteria.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Hello, is it possible to activate extensions (such as postgis or pgvecto) from variable environment that would be given to the docker image ?

Dominant language
Shell
Stars
2.5k
Forks
1.2k
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Getting set up

This project ships no dev container, Dockerfile or contributing guide, so setting up is up to you: start from its README, and see our first-contribution guide for the general steps.

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from docker-library/postgres

All issues in docker-library/postgres

Similar issues

More Shell/Bash issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.