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PostgreSQL TODO List
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====================
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
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Last updated: Tue May 10 18:26:46 EDT 2005
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Last updated: Mon May 16 19:35:37 EDT 2005
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The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
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http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#FF0000" vlink="#A00000" alink="#0000FF">
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<h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>
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<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</a>)<br/>
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Last updated: Tue May 10 18:26:46 EDT 2005
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Last updated: Mon May 16 19:35:37 EDT 2005
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</p>
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<p>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<br/>
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<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html</a>.
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</li><li>Allow WAL replay of CREATE TABLESPACE to work when the directory
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structure on the recovery computer is different from the original
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</li><li>Add "include file" functionality in postgresql.conf
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</li><li>-Add session start time and last statement time to pg_stat_activity
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</li><li>*-Add session start time and last statement time to pg_stat_activity*
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</li><li>Allow server logs to be remotely read using SQL commands
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</li><li>Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL
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<p> This would require a new global table that is dumped to flat file for
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<p> This is useful for checking PITR recovery.
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</p>
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</li><li>Allow the PITR process to be debugged and data examined
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</li><li>-Add the client IP address and port to pg_stat_activity
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</li><li>*-Add the client IP address and port to pg_stat_activity*
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</li><li>Improve replication solutions
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<ul>
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<li>Load balancing
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</p>
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</li><li>Add UNIQUE capability to non-btree indexes
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</li><li>Add rtree index support for line, lseg, path, point
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</li><li>-Use indexes for MIN() and MAX()
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</li><li>*-Use indexes for MIN() and MAX()*
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<p> MIN/MAX queries can already be rewritten as SELECT col FROM tab ORDER
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BY col {DESC} LIMIT 1. Completing this item involves doing this
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transformation automatically.
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order. Another method would be to sort heap ctids matching the index
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before accessing the heap rows.
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</p>
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</li><li>-Allow non-bitmap indexes to be combined by creating bitmaps in memory
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</li><li>*-Allow non-bitmap indexes to be combined by creating bitmaps in memory*
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<p> This feature allows separate indexes to be ANDed or ORed together. This
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is particularly useful for data warehousing applications that need to
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query the database in an many permutations. This feature scans an index
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</li><li>Allow an alias to be provided for the target table in UPDATE/DELETE
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<p> This is not SQL-spec but many DBMSs allow it.
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</p>
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</li><li>-Allow additional tables to be specified in DELETE for joins
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</li><li>*-Allow additional tables to be specified in DELETE for joins*
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<p> UPDATE already allows this (UPDATE...FROM) but we need similar
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functionality in DELETE. It's been agreed that the keyword should
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be USING, to avoid anything as confusing as DELETE FROM a FROM b.
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memory. This could exhaust memory for very large trigger queues.
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This item involves dumping large queues into files.
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</p>
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</li><li>-Implement shared row locks and use them in RI triggers
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</li><li>*-Implement shared row locks and use them in RI triggers*
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</li><li>Enforce referential integrity for system tables
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</li><li>Change foreign key constraint for array -> element to mean element
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in array (?)
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</p>
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</li><li>Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching,
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especially for WAL writes
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</li><li>-Cache last known per-tuple offsets to speed long tuple access
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</li><li>*-Cache last known per-tuple offsets to speed long tuple access*
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</li><li>Speed up COUNT(*)
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<p> We could use a fixed row count and a +/- count to follow MVCC
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visibility rules, or a single cached value could be used and
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</li><li>Query execute plan
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</li><li>Query results
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</li></ul>
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</li><li>-Allow the size of the buffer cache used by temporary objects to be
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</li><li>*-Allow the size of the buffer cache used by temporary objects to be*
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specified as a GUC variable
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<p> Larger local buffer cache sizes requires more efficient handling of
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local cache lookups.
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write lock. However, the read lock promotion to write lock could lead
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to deadlock situations.
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</p>
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</li><li>-Add a warning when the free space map is too small
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</li><li>*-Add a warning when the free space map is too small*
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</li><li>Maintain a map of recently-expired rows
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<p> This allows vacuum to target specific pages for possible free space
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without requiring a sequential scan.
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while on non-SMP machines, the backend should sleep so the process
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holding the lock can complete and release it.
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</p>
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</li><li>-Improve SMP performance on i386 machines
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</li><li>*-Improve SMP performance on i386 machines*
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<p> i386-based SMP machines can generate excessive context switching
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caused by lock failure in high concurrency situations. This may be
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caused by CPU cache line invalidation inefficiencies.
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</li><li>Allow cross-compiling by generating the zic database on the target system
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</li><li>Improve NLS maintenace of libpgport messages linked onto applications
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</li><li>Allow ecpg to work with MSVC and BCC
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</li><li>-Make src/port/snprintf.c thread-safe
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</li><li>*-Make src/port/snprintf.c thread-safe*
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</li><li>Add xpath_array() to /contrib/xml2 to return results as an array
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</li><li>Allow building in directories containing spaces
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<p> This is probably not possible because 'gmake' and other compiler tools
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