On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
"Gurjeet Singh" <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com> writes: > I vote for contrib/pg_freespacemap functions to be included in the core > since FSM is in core.
The old FSM was in core, too. That's not a helpful argument.
In the absence of these functions, one has to run VACUUM just to be able to see the freespace information; putting these functions in contrib/ is just asking for extra work from DBAs, who IMHO are not very comfortable with 'make; make install'.
If a feature is mainstream, so should be the functions to extract information about it.