If you already self-manage Postgres, you may prefer to install ParadeDB directly within your self-managed Postgres instead of deploying the ParadeDB Helm chart. This can be done by installing the pg_search extension, which powers all of ParadeDB’s full text search and analytics:

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Prerequisites

Ensure that you have superuser access to the Postgres database. Next, install libicu. 
sudo apt-get install -y libicu70

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Install the ParadeDB Postgres Extension

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ParadeDB Community

ParadeDB provides prebuilt binaries for our extension on
  • Debian 12
  • Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9
  • macOS 14 (Sonoma) and 15 (Sequoia)
Postgres 14, 15, 16, and 17 are available. If you are using a different version of Postgres or a different operating system, you will need to build the extension from source. The prebuilt releases can be found in GitHub Releases.
You can replace 0.17.2 with the pg_search version you wish to install and 17 with the version of Postgres you are using.
# Available arch versions are amd64, arm64
curl -L "https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb/releases/download/v0.17.2/postgresql-17-pg-search_0.17.2-1PARADEDB-noble_amd64.deb" -o /tmp/pg_search.deb
sudo apt-get install -y /tmp/*.deb

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ParadeDB Enterprise

If you are a ParadeDB Enterprise user, you should have received a copy of the enterprise binaries. Please contact sales for access.

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Update postgresql.conf

Next, add the extension(s) to shared_preload_libraries in postgresql.conf. Adding pg_search to shared_preload_libraries is unnecessary if your Postgres version is 17 or higher. 
shared_preload_libraries = 'pg_search'
Reload the Postgres server for these changes to take effect.

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Load the Extension

Finally, connect to your Postgres database via your client of choice (e.g. psql) and run the following command: 
CREATE EXTENSION pg_search;
pg_search can be combined with pgvector for hybrid search. You can find the instructions for installing pgvector here.