Re: Any reasons to not move pgstattuple to core?

Sergey Konoplev escribió:
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I would highlight it as it became a kind of routine one. Also,
> sometimes it is required to solve problems, not to make new features,
> so it often can not wait.

Greg Smith made a list some months ago of contrib modules that were
essential for forensics analysis and such. Weren't we going to do
something special about those?

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