How to install external extensions in GCP's PostgreSQL

Question

I see here that only allowed extensions can be installed on PostgreSQL in Google Cloud Platform. Is there any possibility to add an extension that is not listed in supported extensions? The extension I need is pg_semver.

Answer 1

There are two options here for your use case:

1. Use a Compute Engine instance as SQL database, rather than CloudSQL and you will be able to install any extension you would need to.
2. As stated on the official documentation you can open a Feature Request (FR) to the CloudSQL eng team in order to evaluate it and let you know if it will be implemented or not in the future.

Bear in mind that feature requests have not ETA.