Re: Any reasons to not move pgstattuple to core?

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Sergey Konoplev <gray(dot)ru(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> In my practice I quite often face the problem of bloated tables. I
> usually use pgstattuple to perform investigations. I also create a
> tool that uses UPDATEs based way to smoothly remove bloat
> (https://github.com/grayhemp/pgtoolkit), and it partially depends on
> pgstatuple too. To be more precise it gets much more effective with
> pgstattuple.
>
> Sometimes its installation leads to a headache, because it requires an
> approve from security and admins, it also a problem when I have a
> read-only access or no access to the database at all (eg. when
> consulting somebody by IM or phone). I think I am not the only person
> who faced these nuances.

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.

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