Why not install pgstattuple by default?

Josh Berkus <josh.berkus@pgexperts.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh.berkus@pgexperts.com>
To: postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-05-05T22:34:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hackers,

I've run into a couple of occasions lately where I really wanted
pgstattuple on a production server in order to check table/index bloat.
 However, in the production environment at a large site installing a
contrib module can involve a process which takes days or weeks.

Is there some reason why the stattuple functions aren't just available
as core functions?  Are they unsafe somehow?

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