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Fix some issues that prevent this file to be processed by scripts.

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While at it, mark a couple of items completed in 8.4:
!   o -Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-xid
      advancement starvation

! * -Improve performance of shared invalidation queue for multiple CPUs

Also remove a couple of obsolete assignments.
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@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ Data Types
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-11/msg00390.php
o Add ISO INTERVAL handling
* Add ISO INTERVAL handling
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-01/msg00250.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-04/msg00248.php
@ -396,14 +396,14 @@ Data Types
* MONEY data type
* Add locale-aware MONEY type, and support multiple currencies
o Add locale-aware MONEY type, and support multiple currencies
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-08/msg01432.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01181.php
* MONEY dumps in a locale-specific format making it difficult to
o MONEY dumps in a locale-specific format making it difficult to
restore to a system with a different locale
* Allow MONEY to be easily cast to/from other numeric data types
o Allow MONEY to be easily cast to/from other numeric data types
* Text Search
@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ Indexes
* Hash
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00051.php
o http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00051.php
o Pack hash index buckets onto disk pages more efficiently
@ -1536,10 +1536,8 @@ Cache Usage
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-01/msg00049.php
* Consider automatic caching of statements at various levels:
parsed query tree, query execution plan, query results
o Parsed query tree
o Query execute plan
o Query results
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00823.php
* Consider increasing internal areas when shared buffers is increased
@ -1617,7 +1615,7 @@ Vacuum
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-12/msg00876.php
o Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-xid
o -Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-xid
advancement starvation
The problem is that autovacuum cannot vacuum them to set frozen xids;
@ -1639,7 +1637,7 @@ Vacuum
Locking
=======
* Fix priority ordering of read and write light-weight locks (Neil)
* Fix priority ordering of read and write light-weight locks
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-11/msg00893.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-11/msg00905.php
@ -1925,7 +1923,7 @@ Miscellaneous Performance
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-11/msg00585.php
* Improve performance of shared invalidation queue for multiple CPUs
* -Improve performance of shared invalidation queue for multiple CPUs
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2008-01/msg00023.php
@ -1975,7 +1973,7 @@ Source Code
* %Remove warnings created by -Wcast-align
* Move platform-specific ps status display info from ps_status.c to ports
* Add optional CRC checksum to heap and index pages
* Improve documentation to build only interfaces (Marc)
* Improve documentation to build only interfaces
* Remove or relicense modules that are not under the BSD license, if possible
* Acquire lock on a relation before building a relcache entry for it
* Allow cross-compiling by generating the zic database on the target system
@ -2132,7 +2130,7 @@ Exotic Features
modification.
* Allow plug-in modules to emulate features from other databases
* Add features of Oracle-style packages (Pavel)
* Add features of Oracle-style packages
A package would be a schema with session-local variables,
public/private functions, and initialization functions. It

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>PostgreSQL TODO List</title>
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<meta name="generator" content="HTML::TextToHTML v2.51"/>
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<h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>
@ -286,10 +286,9 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/>
LC_MESSAGES
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-11/msg00390.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-11/msg00390.php</a>
</p>
</li></ul>
</li><li>Add ISO INTERVAL handling
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-01/msg00250.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-01/msg00250.php</a><br/>
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-01/msg00250.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-01/msg00250.php</a>
<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-04/msg00248.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-04/msg00248.php</a>
</p>
<ul>
@ -321,8 +320,8 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/>
</li><li>Round or truncate values to the requested precision, e.g.
INTERVAL '11 months' AS YEAR should return one or zero
</li><li>Support precision, CREATE TABLE foo (a INTERVAL MONTH(3))
<ul>
<li>Arrays
</li></ul>
</li><li>Arrays
<ul>
<li>Delay resolution of array expression's data type so assignment
coercion can be performed on empty array expressions
@ -375,7 +374,6 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/>
</p>
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
<h1><a name="section_4">Functions</a></h1>
<ul>
@ -788,12 +786,10 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/>
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg00954.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg00954.php</a>
</p>
</li><li>Allow COPY to report errors sooner
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01169.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01169.php</a>
</p>
<ul>
<li>GRANT/REVOKE
</li></ul>
</li><li>GRANT/REVOKE
<ul>
<li>Allow column-level privileges
</li><li>%Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be applied to all schema objects
@ -1000,7 +996,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/>
widths. Perhaps the word wrapping could use the same
algorithm documented in the W3C specification.
<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00404.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00404.php</a>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html<strong>auto-table-layout">http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html</strong>auto-table-layout</a>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#auto-table-layout">http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#auto-table-layout</a>
<li>Add "auto" expanded mode that outputs in expanded format if
"wrapped" mode can't wrap the output to the screen width
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00417.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00417.php</a>
@ -1106,8 +1102,8 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/>
</p>
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
</p><h1><a name="section_11">Triggers</a></h1>
<h1><a name="section_11">Triggers</a></h1>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Add deferred trigger queue file
<p> Right now all deferred trigger information is stored in backend
@ -1239,11 +1235,9 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/>
digital trees (see Aoki)
</li></ul>
</li><li>Hash
</li></ul>
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00051.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00051.php</a>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Pack hash index buckets onto disk pages more efficiently
<li><a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00051.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00051.php</a>
</li><li>Pack hash index buckets onto disk pages more efficiently
<p> Currently only one hash bucket can be stored on a page. Ideally
several hash buckets could be stored on a single page and greater
granularity used for the hash algorithm.
@ -1258,6 +1252,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/>
</li><li>Allow multi-column hash indexes
</li><li>-<em>During index creation, pre-sort the tuples to improve build speed</em>
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
<h1><a name="section_13">Sorting</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Consider using hash buckets to do DISTINCT, rather than sorting
@ -1331,12 +1326,9 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/>
<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-01/msg00049.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-01/msg00049.php</a>
</p>
</li><li>Consider automatic caching of statements at various levels:
<ul>
<li>Parsed query tree
</li><li>Query execute plan
</li><li>Query results
<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00823.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00823.php</a>
</li></ul>
Parsed query tree, query execution plan, query results
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00823.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00823.php</a>
</p>
</li><li>Consider increasing internal areas when shared buffers is increased
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-10/msg01419.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-10/msg01419.php</a>
</p>
@ -1401,7 +1393,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/>
</li><li>Improve control of auto-vacuum
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-12/msg00876.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-12/msg00876.php</a>
</p>
</li><li>Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-xid
</li><li>-<em>Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-xid</em>
advancement starvation
<p> The problem is that autovacuum cannot vacuum them to set frozen xids;
only the session that created them can do that.
@ -1420,7 +1412,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/>
<h1><a name="section_17">Locking</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Fix priority ordering of read and write light-weight locks (Neil)
<li>Fix priority ordering of read and write light-weight locks
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-11/msg00893.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-11/msg00893.php</a>
<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-11/msg00905.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-11/msg00905.php</a>
</p>
@ -1661,7 +1653,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/>
AcceptInvalidationMessages() call
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-11/msg00585.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-11/msg00585.php</a>
</p>
</li><li>Improve performance of shared invalidation queue for multiple CPUs
</li><li>-<em>Improve performance of shared invalidation queue for multiple CPUs</em>
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2008-01/msg00023.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2008-01/msg00023.php</a>
</p>
</li><li>Consider Cartesian joins when both relations are needed to form an
@ -1702,7 +1694,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/>
</li><li>%Remove warnings created by -Wcast-align
</li><li>Move platform-specific ps status display info from ps_status.c to ports
</li><li>Add optional CRC checksum to heap and index pages
</li><li>Improve documentation to build only interfaces (Marc)
</li><li>Improve documentation to build only interfaces
</li><li>Remove or relicense modules that are not under the BSD license, if possible
</li><li>Acquire lock on a relation before building a relcache entry for it
</li><li>Allow cross-compiling by generating the zic database on the target system
@ -1830,7 +1822,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/>
modification.
</p>
</li><li>Allow plug-in modules to emulate features from other databases
</li><li>Add features of Oracle-style packages (Pavel)
</li><li>Add features of Oracle-style packages
<p> A package would be a schema with session-local variables,
public/private functions, and initialization functions. It
is also possible to implement these capabilities
@ -1850,7 +1842,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/>
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00893.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00893.php</a>
</p>
</li></ul>
<h1><a name="section_25">Features We Do <u>Not</u> Want</a></h1>
<h1><a name="section_25">Features We Do _Not_ Want</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>All backends running as threads in a single process (not wanted)