What is timescaledb-2-loader-postgresql package and what is timescaledb-tools package?

TimescaleDB and PostgreSQL
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Hi guys
3 timescaledb packages were installed for timescaledb, what is timescaledb-2-loader-postgresql package and what is timescaledb-tools package? Thanks

# yum list installed | grep timescaledb`
timescaledb-2-loader-postgresql-14.x86_64         2.14.2-0.el7                   @timescaledb`
timescaledb-2-postgresql-14.x86_64                2.14.2-0.el7                   @timescaledb`
timescaledb-tools.x86_64                          0.14.3-0.el7                   @timescaledb`
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Hi @Yi_Sun,

The loader is the timescaledb.so extension that is used to support multiple versions of the timescale extension. Tools is timescaledb-tune and timescaledb-parallel-copy.