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Jim C. Nasby
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PostgreSQL TODO List
====================
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
Last updated: Wed Aug 24 10:00:31 EDT 2005
Last updated: Wed Aug 24 10:05:23 EDT 2005
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
#A hyphen, "-", marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 8.1 release.#
#A percent sign, "%", marks items that are easier to implement.#
Bracketed items, "[]", have more detail.
@ -19,10 +20,10 @@ first.
Administration
==============
* Remove behavior of postmaster -o after making postmaster/postgres
* %Remove behavior of postmaster -o after making postmaster/postgres
flags unique
* -Allow limits on per-db/role connections
* Allow pooled connections to list all prepared queries
* %Allow pooled connections to list all prepared queries
This would allow an application inheriting a pooled connection to know
the queries prepared in the current session.
@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ Administration
Currently SIGTERM of a backend can lead to lock table corruption.
* -Prevent dropping user that still owns objects, or auto-drop the objects
* Set proper permissions on non-system schemas during db creation
* %Set proper permissions on non-system schemas during db creation
Currently all schemas are owned by the super-user because they are
copied from the template1 database.
@ -61,16 +62,16 @@ Administration
* Configuration files
o Add "include file" functionality in postgresql.conf
o %Add "include file" functionality in postgresql.conf
o Allow postgresql.conf values to be set so they can not be changed
by the user
o Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them
o %Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them
to defaults
Currently, if a variable is commented out, it keeps the
previous uncommented value until a server restarted.
o Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL
o %Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL
This would add a function to load the SQL table from
pg_hba.conf, and one to writes its contents to the flat file.
@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ Administration
can be inserted between existing rows, e.g. row 2.5 goes
between row 2 and row 3.
o Allow postgresql.conf file values to be changed via an SQL
o %Allow postgresql.conf file values to be changed via an SQL
API, perhaps using SET GLOBAL
o Allow the server to be stopped/restarted via an SQL API
@ -106,7 +107,7 @@ Administration
requires a tool that will call that function and connect to each
database to find the objects in each database for that tablespace.
o Add a GUC variable to control the tablespace for temporary objects
o %Add a GUC variable to control the tablespace for temporary objects
and sort files
It could start with a random tablespace from a supplied list and
@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ Administration
the archive contins all the files needed for point-in-time
recovery.
o Create dump tool for write-ahead logs for use in determining
o %Create dump tool for write-ahead logs for use in determining
transaction id for point-in-time recovery
o Allow a warm standby system to also allow read-only queries
[pitr]
@ -153,7 +154,7 @@ Monitoring
This would allow server log information to be easily loaded into
a database for analysis.
* Add ability to monitor the use of temporary sort files
* %Add ability to monitor the use of temporary sort files
* -Add session start time and last statement time to pg_stat_activity
* -Add a function that returns the start time of the postmaster
* Allow server logs to be remotely read and removed using SQL commands
@ -162,7 +163,7 @@ Monitoring
Data Types
==========
* Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type
* %Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type
* Change NUMERIC to enforce the maximum precision, and increase it
* Add NUMERIC division operator that doesn't round?
@ -177,14 +178,14 @@ Data Types
* Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences,
seqname.nextval?
* Disallow changing default expression of a SERIAL column?
* %Disallow changing default expression of a SERIAL column?
* Fix data types where equality comparison isn't intuitive, e.g. box
* Prevent INET cast to CIDR if the unmasked bits are not zero, or
* %Prevent INET cast to CIDR if the unmasked bits are not zero, or
zero the bits
* Prevent INET cast to CIDR from droping netmask, SELECT '1.1.1.1'::inet::cidr
* %Prevent INET cast to CIDR from droping netmask, SELECT '1.1.1.1'::inet::cidr
* Allow INET + INT4 to increment the host part of the address, or
throw an error on overflow
* Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery
* %Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery
* Dates and Times
@ -221,7 +222,7 @@ Data Types
* Arrays
o Allow NULLs in arrays
o Allow MIN()/MAX() on arrays
o %Allow MIN()/MAX() on arrays
o Delay resolution of array expression's data type so assignment
coercion can be performed on empty array expressions
o Modify array literal representation to handle array index lower bound
@ -255,7 +256,7 @@ Functions
make time reporting more consistent and will allow reporting of
the statement start time.
* Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), and pg_get_attrdef()
* %Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), and pg_get_attrdef()
* Allow to_char() to print localized month names
* Allow functions to have a schema search path specified at creation time
* Allow substring/replace() to get/set bit values
@ -304,16 +305,16 @@ Multi-Language Support
Views / Rules
=============
* Automatically create rules on views so they are updateable, per SQL99
* %Automatically create rules on views so they are updateable, per SQL99
We can only auto-create rules for simple views. For more complex
cases users will still have to write rules.
* Add the functionality for WITH CHECK OPTION clause of CREATE VIEW
* Allow NOTIFY in rules involving conditionals
* Have views on temporary tables exist in the temporary namespace
* %Have views on temporary tables exist in the temporary namespace
* Allow temporary views on non-temporary tables
* Allow RULE recompilation
* %Allow RULE recompilation
SQL Commands
@ -333,9 +334,9 @@ SQL Commands
* Add CORRESPONDING BY to UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT
* -Allow REINDEX to rebuild all database indexes
* Add ROLLUP, CUBE, GROUPING SETS options to GROUP BY
* Allow SET CONSTRAINTS to be qualified by schema/table name
* Allow TRUNCATE ... CASCADE/RESTRICT
* Add a separate TRUNCATE permission
* %Allow SET CONSTRAINTS to be qualified by schema/table name
* %Allow TRUNCATE ... CASCADE/RESTRICT
* %Add a separate TRUNCATE permission
Currently only the owner can TRUNCATE a table because triggers are not
called, and the table is locked in exclusive mode.
@ -367,7 +368,7 @@ SQL Commands
triggers?)
* Add NOVICE output level for helpful messages like automatic sequence/index
creation
* Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (roles, databases
* %Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (roles, databases
and tablespaces)
* -Add an option to automatically use savepoints for each statement in a
multi-statement transaction.
@ -420,11 +421,11 @@ SQL Commands
* ALTER
o Have ALTER TABLE RENAME rename SERIAL sequence names
o Add ALTER DOMAIN TYPE
o Allow ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... RENAME
o Allow ALTER TABLE to change constraint deferrability and actions
o Disallow dropping of an inherited constraint
o %Have ALTER TABLE RENAME rename SERIAL sequence names
o %Add ALTER DOMAIN TYPE
o %Allow ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... RENAME
o %Allow ALTER TABLE to change constraint deferrability and actions
o %Disallow dropping of an inherited constraint
o -Allow objects to be moved to different schemas
o Allow ALTER TABLESPACE to move to different directories
o Allow databases to be moved to different tablespaces
@ -433,7 +434,7 @@ SQL Commands
Currently non-global system tables must be in the default database
tablespace. Global system tables can never be moved.
o Prevent child tables from altering constraints like CHECK that were
o %Prevent child tables from altering constraints like CHECK that were
inherited from the parent table
@ -449,7 +450,7 @@ SQL Commands
store heap rows in hashed groups, perhaps using a user-supplied
hash function.
o Add default clustering to system tables
o %Add default clustering to system tables
To do this, determine the ideal cluster index for each system
table and set the cluster setting during initdb.
@ -463,7 +464,7 @@ SQL Commands
processed, with ROLLBACK on COPY failure.
o -Allow COPY to understand \x as a hex byte
o Have COPY return the number of rows loaded/unloaded?
o %Have COPY return the number of rows loaded/unloaded?
o -Allow COPY to optionally include column headings in the first line
o -Allow COPY FROM ... CSV to interpret newlines and carriage
returns in data
@ -472,7 +473,7 @@ SQL Commands
* GRANT/REVOKE
o Allow column-level privileges
o Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be applied to all schema objects
o %Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be applied to all schema objects
with one command
The proposed syntax is:
@ -495,7 +496,7 @@ SQL Commands
o Prevent DROP TABLE from dropping a row referenced by its own open
cursor?
o Allow pooled connections to list all open WITH HOLD cursors
o %Allow pooled connections to list all open WITH HOLD cursors
Because WITH HOLD cursors exist outside transactions, this allows
them to be listed so they can be closed.
@ -589,22 +590,22 @@ Clients
* pg_dump
o Have pg_dump use multi-statement transactions for INSERT dumps
o Allow pg_dump to use multiple -t and -n switches [pg_dump]
o Add dumping of comments on composite type columns
o Add dumping of comments on index columns
o Replace crude DELETE FROM method of pg_dumpall --clean for
o %Have pg_dump use multi-statement transactions for INSERT dumps
o %Allow pg_dump to use multiple -t and -n switches [pg_dump]
o %Add dumping of comments on composite type columns
o %Add dumping of comments on index columns
o %Replace crude DELETE FROM method of pg_dumpall --clean for
cleaning of roles with separate DROP commands
o -Add dumping and restoring of LOB comments
o Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode
o Add full object name to the tag field. eg. for operators we need
o %Add full object name to the tag field. eg. for operators we need
'=(integer, integer)', instead of just '='.
o Add pg_dumpall custom format dumps.
This is probably best done by combining pg_dump and pg_dumpall
into a single binary.
o Add CSV output format
o %Add CSV output format
o Update pg_dump and psql to use the new COPY libpq API (Christopher)
o Remove unnecessary abstractions in pg_dump source code
@ -622,7 +623,7 @@ Clients
o Use backend PREPARE/EXECUTE facility for ecpg where possible
o Implement SQLDA
o Fix nested C comments
o sqlwarn[6] should be 'W' if the PRECISION or SCALE value specified
o %sqlwarn[6] should be 'W' if the PRECISION or SCALE value specified
o Make SET CONNECTION thread-aware, non-standard?
o Allow multidimensional arrays
o Add internationalized message strings
@ -657,7 +658,7 @@ Referential Integrity
* Allow statement-level triggers to access modified rows
* Support triggers on columns (Greg Sabino Mullane)
* Remove CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER
* %Remove CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER
This was used in older releases to dump referential integrity
constraints.
@ -808,7 +809,7 @@ Fsync
* Improve commit_delay handling to reduce fsync()
* Determine optimal fdatasync/fsync, O_SYNC/O_DSYNC options
* -Allow multiple blocks to be written to WAL with one write()
* Add an option to sync() before fsync()'ing checkpoint files
* %Add an option to sync() before fsync()'ing checkpoint files
* Add program to test if fsync has a delay compared to non-fsync
@ -906,14 +907,14 @@ Vacuum
VACUUM can look at just those pages rather than the entire table. In
the event of a system crash, the bitmap would probably be invalidated.
* Add system view to show free space map contents
* %Add system view to show free space map contents
* Auto-vacuum
o -Move into the backend code
o Use free-space map information to guide refilling
o Suggest VACUUM FULL if a table is nearly empty
o %Suggest VACUUM FULL if a table is nearly empty
o Improve xid wraparound detection by recording per-table rather
than per-database
@ -1079,7 +1080,7 @@ Source Code
* Rename some /contrib modules from pg* to pg_*
* Move some things from /contrib into main tree
* Move some /contrib modules out to their own project sites
* Remove warnings created by -Wcast-align
* %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)
@ -1110,6 +1111,7 @@ Source Code
* Fix cross-compiling of time zone database via 'zic'
* Fix sgmltools so PDFs can be generated with bookmarks
* -Add C code on Unix to copy directories for use in creating new databases
* %Clean up compiler warnings (especially with gcc version 4)
* Win32

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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#FF0000" vlink="#A00000" alink="#0000FF">
<h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>
<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</a>)<br/>
Last updated: Wed Aug 24 10:00:31 EDT 2005
Last updated: Wed Aug 24 10:05:23 EDT 2005
</p>
<p>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<br/>
<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html</a>.
</p>
<p><strong>A hyphen, "-", marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 8.1 release.</strong>
<p><strong>A hyphen, "-", marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 8.1 release.</strong><br/>
<strong>A percent sign, "%", marks items that are easier to implement.</strong>
</p>
<p>Bracketed items, "[<a href="http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgtodo?"></a>]", have more detail.
</p>
@ -24,10 +25,10 @@ first.
<h1><a name="section_2">Administration</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Remove behavior of postmaster -o after making postmaster/postgres
<li>%Remove behavior of postmaster -o after making postmaster/postgres
flags unique
</li><li>-<em>Allow limits on per-db/role connections</em>
</li><li>Allow pooled connections to list all prepared queries
</li><li>%Allow pooled connections to list all prepared queries
<p> This would allow an application inheriting a pooled connection to know
the queries prepared in the current session.
</p>
@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ first.
<p> Currently SIGTERM of a backend can lead to lock table corruption.
</p>
</li><li>-<em>Prevent dropping user that still owns objects, or auto-drop the objects</em>
</li><li>Set proper permissions on non-system schemas during db creation
</li><li>%Set proper permissions on non-system schemas during db creation
<p> Currently all schemas are owned by the super-user because they are
copied from the template1 database.
</p>
@ -59,22 +60,22 @@ first.
</li></ul>
</li><li>Configuration files
<ul>
<li>Add "include file" functionality in postgresql.conf
<li>%Add "include file" functionality in postgresql.conf
</li><li>Allow postgresql.conf values to be set so they can not be changed
by the user
</li><li>Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them
</li><li>%Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them
to defaults
<p> Currently, if a variable is commented out, it keeps the
previous uncommented value until a server restarted.
</p>
</li><li>Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL
</li><li>%Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL
<p> This would add a function to load the SQL table from
pg_hba.conf, and one to writes its contents to the flat file.
The table should have a line number that is a float so rows
can be inserted between existing rows, e.g. row 2.5 goes
between row 2 and row 3.
</p>
</li><li>Allow postgresql.conf file values to be changed via an SQL
</li><li>%Allow postgresql.conf file values to be changed via an SQL
API, perhaps using SET GLOBAL
</li><li>Allow the server to be stopped/restarted via an SQL API
</li></ul>
@ -100,7 +101,7 @@ first.
database to find the objects in each database for that tablespace.
</p>
<ul>
<li>Add a GUC variable to control the tablespace for temporary objects
<li>%Add a GUC variable to control the tablespace for temporary objects
and sort files
<p> It could start with a random tablespace from a supplied list and
cycle through the list.
@ -125,7 +126,7 @@ first.
the archive contins all the files needed for point-in-time
recovery.
</p>
</li><li>Create dump tool for write-ahead logs for use in determining
</li><li>%Create dump tool for write-ahead logs for use in determining
transaction id for point-in-time recovery
</li><li>Allow a warm standby system to also allow read-only queries
[<a href="http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgtodo?pitr">pitr</a>]
@ -141,7 +142,7 @@ first.
<p> This would allow server log information to be easily loaded into
a database for analysis.
</p>
</li><li>Add ability to monitor the use of temporary sort files
</li><li>%Add ability to monitor the use of temporary sort files
</li><li>-<em>Add session start time and last statement time to pg_stat_activity</em>
</li><li>-<em>Add a function that returns the start time of the postmaster</em>
</li><li>Allow server logs to be remotely read and removed using SQL commands
@ -149,7 +150,7 @@ first.
<h1><a name="section_4">Data Types</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type
<li>%Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type
</li><li>Change NUMERIC to enforce the maximum precision, and increase it
</li><li>Add NUMERIC division operator that doesn't round?
<p> Currently NUMERIC _rounds_ the result to the specified precision.
@ -165,14 +166,14 @@ first.
<ul>
<li>Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences,
seqname.nextval?
</li><li>Disallow changing default expression of a SERIAL column?
</li><li>%Disallow changing default expression of a SERIAL column?
</li><li>Fix data types where equality comparison isn't intuitive, e.g. box
</li><li>Prevent INET cast to CIDR if the unmasked bits are not zero, or
</li><li>%Prevent INET cast to CIDR if the unmasked bits are not zero, or
zero the bits
</li><li>Prevent INET cast to CIDR from droping netmask, SELECT '<a href="telnet://1.1.1.1">1.1.1.1</a>'::inet::cidr
</li><li>%Prevent INET cast to CIDR from droping netmask, SELECT '<a href="telnet://1.1.1.1">1.1.1.1</a>'::inet::cidr
</li><li>Allow INET + INT4 to increment the host part of the address, or
throw an error on overflow
</li><li>Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery
</li><li>%Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery
</li><li>Dates and Times
<ul>
<li>Allow infinite dates just like infinite timestamps
@ -207,7 +208,7 @@ first.
</li><li>Arrays
<ul>
<li>Allow NULLs in arrays
</li><li>Allow MIN()/MAX() on arrays
</li><li>%Allow MIN()/MAX() on arrays
</li><li>Delay resolution of array expression's data type so assignment
coercion can be performed on empty array expressions
</li><li>Modify array literal representation to handle array index lower bound
@ -238,7 +239,7 @@ first.
make time reporting more consistent and will allow reporting of
the statement start time.
</p>
</li><li>Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), and pg_get_attrdef()
</li><li>%Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), and pg_get_attrdef()
</li><li>Allow to_char() to print localized month names
</li><li>Allow functions to have a schema search path specified at creation time
</li><li>Allow substring/replace() to get/set bit values
@ -283,15 +284,15 @@ first.
<h1><a name="section_7">Views / Rules</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Automatically create rules on views so they are updateable, per SQL99
<li>%Automatically create rules on views so they are updateable, per SQL99
<p> We can only auto-create rules for simple views. For more complex
cases users will still have to write rules.
</p>
</li><li>Add the functionality for WITH CHECK OPTION clause of CREATE VIEW
</li><li>Allow NOTIFY in rules involving conditionals
</li><li>Have views on temporary tables exist in the temporary namespace
</li><li>%Have views on temporary tables exist in the temporary namespace
</li><li>Allow temporary views on non-temporary tables
</li><li>Allow RULE recompilation
</li><li>%Allow RULE recompilation
</li></ul>
<h1><a name="section_8">SQL Commands</a></h1>
@ -308,9 +309,9 @@ first.
</li><li>Add CORRESPONDING BY to UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT
</li><li>-<em>Allow REINDEX to rebuild all database indexes</em>
</li><li>Add ROLLUP, CUBE, GROUPING SETS options to GROUP BY
</li><li>Allow SET CONSTRAINTS to be qualified by schema/table name
</li><li>Allow TRUNCATE ... CASCADE/RESTRICT
</li><li>Add a separate TRUNCATE permission
</li><li>%Allow SET CONSTRAINTS to be qualified by schema/table name
</li><li>%Allow TRUNCATE ... CASCADE/RESTRICT
</li><li>%Add a separate TRUNCATE permission
<p> Currently only the owner can TRUNCATE a table because triggers are not
called, and the table is locked in exclusive mode.
</p>
@ -338,7 +339,7 @@ first.
triggers?)
</li><li>Add NOVICE output level for helpful messages like automatic sequence/index
creation
</li><li>Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (roles, databases
</li><li>%Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (roles, databases
and tablespaces)
</li><li>-<em>Add an option to automatically use savepoints for each statement in a</em>
multi-statement transaction.
@ -383,11 +384,11 @@ first.
</li></ul>
</li><li>ALTER
<ul>
<li>Have ALTER TABLE RENAME rename SERIAL sequence names
</li><li>Add ALTER DOMAIN TYPE
</li><li>Allow ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... RENAME
</li><li>Allow ALTER TABLE to change constraint deferrability and actions
</li><li>Disallow dropping of an inherited constraint
<li>%Have ALTER TABLE RENAME rename SERIAL sequence names
</li><li>%Add ALTER DOMAIN TYPE
</li><li>%Allow ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... RENAME
</li><li>%Allow ALTER TABLE to change constraint deferrability and actions
</li><li>%Disallow dropping of an inherited constraint
</li><li>-<em>Allow objects to be moved to different schemas</em>
</li><li>Allow ALTER TABLESPACE to move to different directories
</li><li>Allow databases to be moved to different tablespaces
@ -395,7 +396,7 @@ first.
<p> Currently non-global system tables must be in the default database
tablespace. Global system tables can never be moved.
</p>
</li><li>Prevent child tables from altering constraints like CHECK that were
</li><li>%Prevent child tables from altering constraints like CHECK that were
inherited from the parent table
</li></ul>
</li><li>CLUSTER
@ -409,7 +410,7 @@ first.
store heap rows in hashed groups, perhaps using a user-supplied
hash function.
</p>
</li><li>Add default clustering to system tables
</li><li>%Add default clustering to system tables
<p> To do this, determine the ideal cluster index for each system
table and set the cluster setting during initdb.
</p>
@ -421,7 +422,7 @@ first.
processed, with ROLLBACK on COPY failure.
</p>
</li><li>-<em>Allow COPY to understand \x as a hex byte</em>
</li><li>Have COPY return the number of rows loaded/unloaded?
</li><li>%Have COPY return the number of rows loaded/unloaded?
</li><li>-<em>Allow COPY to optionally include column headings in the first line</em>
</li><li>-<em>Allow COPY FROM ... CSV to interpret newlines and carriage</em>
returns in data
@ -429,7 +430,7 @@ first.
</li><li>GRANT/REVOKE
<ul>
<li>Allow column-level privileges
</li><li>Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be applied to all schema objects
</li><li>%Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be applied to all schema objects
with one command
<p> The proposed syntax is:
</p><p> GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN public TO phpuser;
@ -450,7 +451,7 @@ first.
</p>
</li><li>Prevent DROP TABLE from dropping a row referenced by its own open
cursor?
</li><li>Allow pooled connections to list all open WITH HOLD cursors
</li><li>%Allow pooled connections to list all open WITH HOLD cursors
<p> Because WITH HOLD cursors exist outside transactions, this allows
them to be listed so they can be closed.
</p>
@ -534,21 +535,21 @@ first.
</li></ul>
</li><li>pg_dump
<ul>
<li>Have pg_dump use multi-statement transactions for INSERT dumps
</li><li>Allow pg_dump to use multiple -t and -n switches [<a href="http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgtodo?pg_dump">pg_dump</a>]
</li><li>Add dumping of comments on composite type columns
</li><li>Add dumping of comments on index columns
</li><li>Replace crude DELETE FROM method of pg_dumpall --clean for
<li>%Have pg_dump use multi-statement transactions for INSERT dumps
</li><li>%Allow pg_dump to use multiple -t and -n switches [<a href="http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgtodo?pg_dump">pg_dump</a>]
</li><li>%Add dumping of comments on composite type columns
</li><li>%Add dumping of comments on index columns
</li><li>%Replace crude DELETE FROM method of pg_dumpall --clean for
cleaning of roles with separate DROP commands
</li><li>-<em>Add dumping and restoring of LOB comments</em>
</li><li>Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode
</li><li>Add full object name to the tag field. eg. for operators we need
</li><li>%Add full object name to the tag field. eg. for operators we need
'=(integer, integer)', instead of just '='.
</li><li>Add pg_dumpall custom format dumps.
<p> This is probably best done by combining pg_dump and pg_dumpall
into a single binary.
</p>
</li><li>Add CSV output format
</li><li>%Add CSV output format
</li><li>Update pg_dump and psql to use the new COPY libpq API (Christopher)
</li><li>Remove unnecessary abstractions in pg_dump source code
</li></ul>
@ -564,7 +565,7 @@ first.
</li><li>Use backend PREPARE/EXECUTE facility for ecpg where possible
</li><li>Implement SQLDA
</li><li>Fix nested C comments
</li><li>sqlwarn[<a href="http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgtodo?6">6</a>] should be 'W' if the PRECISION or SCALE value specified
</li><li>%sqlwarn[<a href="http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgtodo?6">6</a>] should be 'W' if the PRECISION or SCALE value specified
</li><li>Make SET CONNECTION thread-aware, non-standard?
</li><li>Allow multidimensional arrays
</li><li>Add internationalized message strings
@ -596,7 +597,7 @@ first.
</p>
</li><li>Allow statement-level triggers to access modified rows
</li><li>Support triggers on columns (Greg Sabino Mullane)
</li><li>Remove CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER
</li><li>%Remove CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER
<p> This was used in older releases to dump referential integrity
constraints.
</p>
@ -728,7 +729,7 @@ first.
<li>Improve commit_delay handling to reduce fsync()
</li><li>Determine optimal fdatasync/fsync, O_SYNC/O_DSYNC options
</li><li>-<em>Allow multiple blocks to be written to WAL with one write()</em>
</li><li>Add an option to sync() before fsync()'ing checkpoint files
</li><li>%Add an option to sync() before fsync()'ing checkpoint files
</li><li>Add program to test if fsync has a delay compared to non-fsync
</li></ul>
<h1><a name="section_15">Cache Usage</a></h1>
@ -813,12 +814,12 @@ first.
VACUUM can look at just those pages rather than the entire table. In
the event of a system crash, the bitmap would probably be invalidated.
</p>
</li><li>Add system view to show free space map contents
</li><li>%Add system view to show free space map contents
</li><li>Auto-vacuum
<ul>
<li>-<em>Move into the backend code</em>
</li><li>Use free-space map information to guide refilling
</li><li>Suggest VACUUM FULL if a table is nearly empty
</li><li>%Suggest VACUUM FULL if a table is nearly empty
</li><li>Improve xid wraparound detection by recording per-table rather
than per-database
</li></ul>
@ -967,7 +968,7 @@ first.
</li><li>Rename some /contrib modules from pg* to pg_*
</li><li>Move some things from /contrib into main tree
</li><li>Move some /contrib modules out to their own project sites
</li><li>Remove warnings created by -Wcast-align
</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)
@ -996,6 +997,7 @@ first.
</li><li>Fix cross-compiling of time zone database via 'zic'
</li><li>Fix sgmltools so PDFs can be generated with bookmarks
</li><li>-<em>Add C code on Unix to copy directories for use in creating new databases</em>
</li><li>%Clean up compiler warnings (especially with gcc version 4)
</li><li>Win32
<ul>
<li>Remove configure.in check for link failure when cause is found