On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Robert Haas <[email protected]> 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. -- Kind regards, Sergey Konoplev PostgreSQL Consultant and DBA http://www.linkedin.com/in/grayhemp +1 (415) 867-9984, +7 (901) 903-0499, +7 (988) 888-1979 [email protected] -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
