As specified in the official docs I added the Timescale PPA repository to apt
. I then installed it via sudo apt install timescaledb-postgresql-9.6
Got it. ALTER EXTENSION timescaledb UPDATE;
was close - but this has to be executed on a database that you are connected to, not globally right after logging on to psql. And it's recommended to also pass the -X
argument to disable reading the startup file (~/.psqlrc).
psql -X -U postgres -h localhost -W
\c your-timescale-extended-database-name
ALTER EXTENSION timescaledb UPDATE;
\dx
Output:
List of installed extensions
Name | Version | Schema | Description
-------------+---------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------
plpgsql | 1.0 | pg_catalog | PL/pgSQL procedural language
timescaledb | 0.9.1 | public | Enables scalable inserts and complex queries for time-series data
(2 rows)
\q
to quit psql