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< * Remove unreferenced table files and temp tables during database vacuum
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< * Allow more ISOLATION LEVELS to be accepted, but issue a warning for them
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< * JDBC
< 	o Comprehensive test suite. This may be available already.
< 	o JDBC-standard BLOB support
< 	o Error Codes (pending backend implementation)
< 	o Support both 'make' and 'ant'
< 	o Fix LargeObject API to handle OIDs as unsigned ints
< 	o Use cursors implicitly to avoid large results (see setCursorName())
< 	o Add LISTEN/NOTIFY support to the JDBC driver (Barry)
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< * Allow the regression tests to start postmaster with -i so the tests
<   can be run on systems that don't support unix-domain sockets
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TODO list for PostgreSQL
========================
Last updated: Thu May 20 00:10:44 EDT 2004
Last updated: Thu May 20 11:57:21 EDT 2004
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ the PostgreSQL web site, http://www.PostgreSQL.org.
A dash (-) marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 7.5 release.
Bracketed items "[]" have more detailed.
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Urgent
@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ Administration
==============
* Incremental backups
* Remove unreferenced table files and temp tables during database vacuum
or postmaster startup (Bruce)
* Remove behavior of postmaster -o after making postmaster/postgres
flags unique
* Allow configuration files to be specified in a different directory
@ -65,15 +63,15 @@ Data Types
* Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences, seqname.nextval
* Disallow changing default expression of a SERIAL column
* Allow infinite dates just like infinite timestamps
* Allow pg_dump to dump sequences using NO_MAXVALUE and NO_MINVALUE
* -Allow pg_dump to dump sequences using NO_MAXVALUE and NO_MINVALUE
* Allow backend to output result sets in XML
* Prevent whole-row references from leaking memory, e.g. SELECT COUNT(tab.*)
* -Prevent whole-row references from leaking memory, e.g. SELECT COUNT(tab.*)
* Have initdb set DateStyle based on locale?
* Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), and pg_get_attrdef()
* Add ALTER DOMAIN, AGGREGATE, CONVERSION, SEQUENCE ... OWNER TO
* Allow to_char to print localized month names (Karel)
* Allow functions to have a search path specified at creation time
* Make LENGTH() of CHAR() not count trailing spaces
* -Make LENGTH() of CHAR() not count trailing spaces
* Allow substring/replace() to get/set bit values
* Add GUC variable to allow output of interval values in ISO8601 format
@ -142,7 +140,7 @@ Indexes
* Use bitmaps to fetch heap pages in sequential order [performance]
* Use bitmaps to combine existing indexes [performance]
* Allow use of indexes to search for NULLs
* Allow SELECT * FROM tab WHERE int2col = 4 to use int2col index, int8,
* -Allow SELECT * FROM tab WHERE int2col = 4 to use int2col index, int8,
float4, numeric/decimal too
* Add FILLFACTOR to btree index creation
* Add concurrency to GIST
@ -176,14 +174,14 @@ Commands
(Christopher)
* Dump large object comments in custom dump format
* Add optional textual message to NOTIFY
* Allow more ISOLATION LEVELS to be accepted, but issue a warning for them
* -Allow more ISOLATION LEVELS to be accepted
* Allow CREATE TABLE foo (f1 INT CHECK (f1 > 0) CHECK (f1 < 10)) to work
by searching for non-conflicting constraint names, and prefix with table name
* Use more reliable method for CREATE DATABASE to get a consistent copy of db
* -Have psql \dn show only visible temp schemas using current_schemas()
* -Have psql '\i ~/<tab><tab>' actually load files it displays from home dir
* Ignore temporary tables from other session when processing inheritance
* Add GUC setting to make created tables default to WITHOUT OIDS
* -Add GUC setting to make created tables default to WITHOUT OIDS
* Have pg_ctl look at PGHOST in case it is a socket directory
* Allow column-level privileges
* Add a session mode to warn about non-standard SQL usage
@ -262,25 +260,15 @@ Clients
* Add a libpq function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability
* Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name
* -Allow pg_dump to dump CREATE CONVERSION (Christopher)
* Allow fastpast to pass values in portable format
* Allow libpq to return information about prepared queries
* -Make pg_restore continue after errors, so it acts more like pg_dump scripts
* Have psql show more information about sequences
* Allow pg_dumpall to use non-text output formats
* Have pg_dump use multi-statement transactions for INSERT dumps
* Move psql backslash database information into the backend, use nmumonic
* Move psql backslash database information into the backend, use nmeumonic
commands? [psql]
* JDBC
o Comprehensive test suite. This may be available already.
o JDBC-standard BLOB support
o Error Codes (pending backend implementation)
o Support both 'make' and 'ant'
o Fix LargeObject API to handle OIDs as unsigned ints
o Use cursors implicitly to avoid large results (see setCursorName())
o Add LISTEN/NOTIFY support to the JDBC driver (Barry)
* ECPG
o Docs
o Implement set descriptor, using descriptor
@ -329,7 +317,7 @@ Dependency Checking
* Flush cached query plans when their underlying catalog data changes
* -Use dependency information to dump data in proper order
* Have pg_dump -c clear the database using dependency information
* -Have pg_dump -c clear the database using dependency information
Exotic Features
@ -364,8 +352,8 @@ Cache
* Shared catalog cache, reduce lseek()'s by caching table size in shared area
* Add free-behind capability for large sequential scans [fadvise]
* Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching
* Cache last known per-tuple offsets to speed long tuple access
* Automatically place fixed-width, NOT NULL columns first in a table
* Cache last known per-tuple offsets to speed long tuple access, adjusting
for NULLs and TOAST values
* Use a fixed row count and a +/- count with MVCC visibility rules
to allow fast COUNT(*) queries with no WHERE clause(?) [count]
@ -464,7 +452,8 @@ Source Code
* Create improved PostgreSQL introductory documentation for the PHP
manuals
* Add optional CRC checksum to heap and index pages
* Change representation of whole-tuple parameters to functions
* -Change representation of whole-tuple parameters to functions
* Support composite types as table columns
* Clarify use of 'application' and 'command' tags in SGML docs
* Better document ability to build only certain interfaces (Marc)
* Remove or relicense modules that are not under the BSD license, if possible
@ -475,8 +464,6 @@ Source Code
* -Change CVS ID to PostgreSQL
* -Exit postmaster if postgresql.conf can not be opened
* Rename /scripts directory because they are all C programs now
* Allow the regression tests to start postmaster with -i so the tests
can be run on systems that don't support unix-domain sockets
* Allow creation of a libpq-only tarball
* Promote debug_query_string into a server-side function current_query()
* Allow the identifier length to be increased via a configure option