owenthereal's comments

pgxn is a network of extensions but is far from being an extension manager. An extension manager would IMHO include building the extensions, distributing built artifacts, and managing their lifecycle (upgrade/delete etc.) This is the gap that pgxman tries to fill. When you run `pgxman install EXTENSION`, it installs the prebuilt extension to your system.

> I would generally recommend using the upstream repository packages directly, since they are tested/updated with each major release, and their maintainers are proactive in reaching out to extension maintainers that need to update their extension due to upstream code changes.

Not all extensions have an upstream repository and built debian/yum packages. At Hydra, we test all published in https://github.com/pgxman/buildkit which is available from our registry.