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Postgres has long been a reliable database for keeping your data safe, and it is used in a variety of flexible ways. Because of the many flexible ways it can be used (ranging from embeded devices to data warehousing to large transactional system) it also comes with a lot of knobs to configure it. Part of our approach in providing a fully managed database as a service is configuring Postgres to be production ready from the moment you click a provision, which is what you get with Citus Cloud.

Over time though we have seen a need for more flexibility to tune and customize configurations to your specific needs. Part of this flexibility is in supporting the rich feature set of Postgres features such as JSONB, rich indexing, and more. Part is supporting a broad set of extensions such at HyperLogLog, pg_partman, TopN, PostGIS, and more. And today we're excited to support custom configuration of your Citus clusters on Citus Cloud to enable even broader flexibility.

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