On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Well, this is a general problem with any extension - somebody might
> want it on a system on which the admin is unable or unwilling to
> install it. But we can't put every possible extension in core.
The flip-side is that we could have made an awful lot of built-in
things extensions, but for whatever reason chose not to. I'm not
necessarily in favor of putting pgstattuple in core, but the question
should be asked: Why should we do this here? In what way is
pgstattuple like or not like the other things that are in core?
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Peter Geoghegan