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TODO list for PostgreSQL
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Last updated: Tue May 18 12:06:03 EDT 2004
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1996-08-19 00:14:33 +02:00
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1999-11-14 06:11:02 +01:00
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
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1996-08-19 00:14:33 +02:00
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1996-10-04 17:15:24 +02:00
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The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
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1999-07-13 05:07:20 +02:00
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the PostgreSQL web site, http://www.PostgreSQL.org.
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1996-10-04 17:15:24 +02:00
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2003-11-19 18:35:40 +01:00
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A dash (-) marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 7.5 release.
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1998-02-02 02:20:04 +01:00
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2001-10-08 19:10:11 +02:00
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Bracketed items "[]" have more detailed.
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1999-09-27 05:24:50 +02:00
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1999-06-07 04:42:07 +02:00
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2002-04-25 22:20:50 +02:00
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Urgent
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1999-07-06 22:41:22 +02:00
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2004-02-12 19:01:20 +01:00
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* Add replication of distributed databases
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2003-03-06 03:29:44 +01:00
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o Automatic failover
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o Load balancing
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o Master/slave replication
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o Multi-master replication
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o Partition data across servers
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2003-10-24 05:24:32 +02:00
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o Queries across databases or servers (two-phase commit)
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2003-03-06 03:29:44 +01:00
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o Allow replication over unreliable or non-persistent links
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2004-02-08 02:17:09 +01:00
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* Point-in-time data recovery using backup and write-ahead log,
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http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/project/pitr.html
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* Create native Win32 port, http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/project/win32.html
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2003-10-08 23:44:06 +02:00
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1999-06-07 04:42:07 +02:00
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2002-04-25 22:20:50 +02:00
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Administration
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2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
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* Incremental backups
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2002-04-01 03:56:38 +02:00
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* Remove unreferenced table files and temp tables during database vacuum
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2001-11-23 03:22:04 +01:00
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or postmaster startup (Bruce)
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2001-10-12 04:50:48 +02:00
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* Remove behavior of postmaster -o after making postmaster/postgres
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flags unique
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2002-08-16 06:31:52 +02:00
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* Allow configuration files to be specified in a different directory
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2002-10-25 21:03:04 +02:00
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* Allow limits on per-db/user connections
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2003-01-26 02:13:34 +01:00
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* Add group object ownership, so groups can rename/drop/grant on objects,
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so we can implement roles
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2004-04-14 20:33:03 +02:00
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* Add the concept of dataspaces/tablespaces [tablespaces] (Gavin)
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2004-04-07 19:04:45 +02:00
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* -Allow logging of only data definition(DDL), or DDL and modification statements
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2004-03-09 05:45:48 +01:00
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* -Allow log lines to include session-level information, like database and user
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2003-07-30 22:23:32 +02:00
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* Allow server log information to be output as INSERT statements
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2003-08-13 05:12:04 +02:00
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* Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and groups
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* Prevent dropping user that still owns objects, or auto-drop the objects
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2003-08-17 06:43:48 +02:00
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* Allow pooled connections to query prepared queries
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* Allow pooled connections to close all open WITH HOLD cursors
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2003-09-23 22:45:58 +02:00
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* Allow major upgrades without dump/reload, perhaps using pg_upgrade
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2003-09-29 18:52:14 +02:00
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* Have SHOW ALL and pg_settings show descriptions for server-side variables(Joe)
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2004-02-20 19:45:35 +01:00
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* Allow external interfaces to extend the GUC variable set
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2002-09-05 00:09:47 +02:00
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2003-01-28 00:19:18 +01:00
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2002-04-25 22:20:50 +02:00
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Data Types
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1999-07-06 22:41:22 +02:00
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* Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type
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2003-12-01 23:22:44 +01:00
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* -Change factorial to return a numeric (Gavin)
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2002-04-13 03:37:54 +02:00
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* Change NUMERIC to enforce the maximum precision, and increase it
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2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
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* Add function to return compressed length of TOAST data values (Tom)
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2003-10-21 17:48:56 +02:00
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* Allow INET subnet tests using non-constants to be indexed
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2003-05-26 20:36:51 +02:00
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* Add transaction_timestamp(), statement_timestamp(), clock_timestamp() functionality
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2002-11-21 20:15:04 +01:00
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* Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences, seqname.nextval
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2003-01-01 20:04:07 +01:00
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* Disallow changing default expression of a SERIAL column
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2002-12-30 05:48:57 +01:00
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* Allow infinite dates just like infinite timestamps
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2003-02-18 04:47:39 +01:00
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* Allow pg_dump to dump sequences using NO_MAXVALUE and NO_MINVALUE
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2003-05-24 20:25:35 +02:00
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* Allow backend to output result sets in XML
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2003-05-31 04:54:57 +02:00
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* Prevent whole-row references from leaking memory, e.g. SELECT COUNT(tab.*)
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2003-06-23 21:33:40 +02:00
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* Have initdb set DateStyle based on locale?
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2003-08-17 05:56:16 +02:00
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* Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), and pg_get_attrdef()
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2003-08-17 06:28:15 +02:00
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* Add ALTER DOMAIN, AGGREGATE, CONVERSION, SEQUENCE ... OWNER TO
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2003-09-04 01:01:47 +02:00
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* Allow to_char to print localized month names (Karel)
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2003-10-22 19:14:39 +02:00
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* Allow functions to have a search path specified at creation time
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2003-11-30 05:44:38 +01:00
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* Make LENGTH() of CHAR() not count trailing spaces
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2004-02-12 17:05:15 +01:00
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* Allow substring/replace() to get/set bit values
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2004-03-30 23:51:41 +02:00
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* Add GUC variable to allow output of interval values in ISO8601 format
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2003-08-17 06:28:15 +02:00
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2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
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2001-05-17 05:22:53 +02:00
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* ARRAYS
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2001-07-16 07:00:29 +02:00
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o Allow nulls in arrays
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2003-10-21 04:48:09 +02:00
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o Allow MIN()/MAX() on arrays
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2003-08-08 19:13:02 +02:00
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o Delay resolution of array expression type so assignment coercion
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can be performed on empty array expressions (Joe)
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2004-02-13 00:27:52 +01:00
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o Modify array literal representation to handle array index lower bound
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of other than one
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2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
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2001-10-24 01:27:18 +02:00
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* BINARY DATA
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2001-09-23 05:39:01 +02:00
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o Improve vacuum of large objects, like /contrib/vacuumlo
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2001-09-06 22:37:14 +02:00
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o Add security checking for large objects
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o Make file in/out interface for TOAST columns, similar to large object
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interface (force out-of-line storage and no compression)
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o Auto-delete large objects when referencing row is deleted
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2001-05-10 19:29:55 +02:00
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2002-02-03 20:24:30 +01:00
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2002-04-25 22:20:50 +02:00
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Multi-Language Support
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2001-05-10 19:29:55 +02:00
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2001-05-17 05:22:53 +02:00
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* Add NCHAR (as distinguished from ordinary varchar),
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2004-04-07 21:14:21 +02:00
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* Allow locale to be set at database creation
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* Allow locale on a per-column basis, default to ASCII
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* Optimize locale to have minimal performance impact when not used (Peter E)
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2000-06-14 04:57:08 +02:00
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* Support multiple simultaneous character sets, per SQL92
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2001-10-02 03:20:05 +02:00
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* Improve Unicode combined character handling
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2001-11-20 16:28:37 +01:00
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* Add octet_length_server() and octet_length_client() (Thomas, Tatsuo)
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2001-11-21 19:49:10 +01:00
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* Make octet_length_client the same as octet_length() (?)
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2002-08-16 06:45:44 +02:00
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* Prevent mismatch of frontend/backend encodings from converting bytea
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data from being interpreted as encoded strings
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2003-08-17 06:50:57 +02:00
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* Fix upper()/lower() to work for multibyte encodings
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2002-02-03 20:24:30 +01:00
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2002-04-25 22:20:50 +02:00
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Views / Rules
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1999-06-07 04:42:07 +02:00
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2001-06-12 20:15:50 +02:00
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* Automatically create rules on views so they are updateable, per SQL92 [view]
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2002-06-28 21:28:30 +02:00
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* Add the functionality for WITH CHECK OPTION clause of CREATE VIEW
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2001-01-27 06:40:51 +01:00
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* Allow NOTIFY in rules involving conditionals
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2002-08-14 05:41:09 +02:00
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* Have views on temporary tables exist in the temporary namespace
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2004-02-13 03:30:53 +01:00
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* Allow temporary views on non-temporary tables
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2001-12-06 00:11:30 +01:00
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* Allow RULE recompilation
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2002-02-03 20:24:30 +01:00
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2002-04-17 22:35:23 +02:00
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2002-04-25 22:20:50 +02:00
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Indexes
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1999-06-07 04:42:07 +02:00
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2004-03-17 23:30:10 +01:00
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* -Order duplicate index entries on creation by tid for faster heap lookups
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2001-06-10 03:25:01 +02:00
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* Allow inherited tables to inherit index, UNIQUE constraint, and primary
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key, foreign key [inheritance]
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2001-05-21 20:36:58 +02:00
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* UNIQUE INDEX on base column not honored on inserts from inherited table
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INSERT INTO inherit_table (unique_index_col) VALUES (dup) should fail
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[inheritance]
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2001-11-23 03:22:04 +01:00
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* Add UNIQUE capability to non-btree indexes
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2001-05-10 19:29:55 +02:00
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* Add rtree index support for line, lseg, path, point
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2001-10-12 18:13:48 +02:00
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* Use indexes for min() and max() or convert to SELECT col FROM tab ORDER
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2001-10-12 19:23:04 +02:00
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BY col DESC LIMIT 1 if appropriate index exists and WHERE clause acceptible
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2001-05-10 22:26:45 +02:00
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* Use index to restrict rows returned by multi-key index when used with
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non-consecutive keys or OR clauses, so fewer heap accesses
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* Be smarter about insertion of already-ordered data into btree index
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2003-02-19 02:36:32 +01:00
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* Prevent index uniqueness checks when UPDATE does not modify the column
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2002-08-13 06:32:28 +02:00
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* Use bitmaps to fetch heap pages in sequential order [performance]
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* Use bitmaps to combine existing indexes [performance]
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2003-10-21 04:48:09 +02:00
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* Allow use of indexes to search for NULLs
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2001-11-23 03:22:04 +01:00
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* Allow SELECT * FROM tab WHERE int2col = 4 to use int2col index, int8,
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2004-02-12 18:38:50 +01:00
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float4, numeric/decimal too
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2002-06-01 21:53:31 +02:00
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* Add FILLFACTOR to btree index creation
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2002-10-29 04:22:43 +01:00
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* Add concurrency to GIST
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2003-06-02 20:42:31 +02:00
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* Allow a single index to index multiple tables (for inheritance and subtables)
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2001-05-11 00:36:52 +02:00
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2002-08-14 04:51:13 +02:00
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2002-04-25 22:20:50 +02:00
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Commands
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1999-06-07 04:42:07 +02:00
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2002-04-18 05:10:29 +02:00
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* Add BETWEEN ASYMMETRIC/SYMMETRIC (Christopher)
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2003-10-26 05:43:55 +01:00
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* Change LIMIT/OFFSET to use int8
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2001-12-05 22:06:40 +01:00
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* CREATE TABLE AS can not determine column lengths from expressions [atttypmod]
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* Allow UPDATE to handle complex aggregates [update]
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2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
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* Allow command blocks to ignore certain types of errors
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2002-04-25 22:39:11 +02:00
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* Allow backslash handling in quoted strings to be disabled for portability
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2003-06-24 03:54:57 +02:00
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* Allow UPDATE, DELETE to handle table aliases for self-joins [delete]
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2002-08-27 01:02:21 +02:00
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* Add CORRESPONDING BY to UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT
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2002-08-27 16:17:14 +02:00
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* Allow REINDEX to rebuild all indexes, remove /contrib/reindex
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2002-12-09 19:09:44 +01:00
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* Add ROLLUP, CUBE, GROUPING SETS options to GROUP BY
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2003-02-14 15:41:40 +01:00
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* Add schema option to createlang
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2004-04-14 20:33:03 +02:00
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* Allow savepoints / nested transactions [transactions] (Alvaro)
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2004-02-13 05:36:02 +01:00
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* Use nested transactions to prevent syntax errors from aborting a transaction
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2003-03-17 19:50:06 +01:00
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* Allow UPDATE tab SET ROW (col, ...) = (...) for updating multiple columns
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2003-06-02 19:26:16 +02:00
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* Allow SET CONSTRAINTS to be qualified by schema/table
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2003-07-22 02:49:22 +02:00
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* Prevent COMMENT ON DATABASE from using a database name
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2004-04-20 22:16:30 +02:00
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* -Add NO WAIT LOCKs
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2003-08-25 00:57:21 +02:00
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* Allow TRUNCATE ... CASCADE/RESTRICT
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2003-08-17 07:23:13 +02:00
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* Allow PREPARE of cursors
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2003-09-23 23:00:18 +02:00
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* Allow LISTEN/NOTIFY to store info in memory rather than tables
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2003-12-08 14:04:14 +01:00
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* -COMMENT ON [ CAST | CONVERSION | OPERATOR CLASS | LARGE OBJECT | LANGUAGE ]
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2003-10-09 06:29:40 +02:00
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(Christopher)
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2004-01-26 19:32:08 +01:00
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* Dump large object comments in custom dump format
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2003-10-21 04:48:09 +02:00
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* Add optional textual message to NOTIFY
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2003-10-26 03:57:39 +01:00
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* Allow more ISOLATION LEVELS to be accepted, but issue a warning for them
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2003-11-07 16:31:14 +01:00
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* Allow CREATE TABLE foo (f1 INT CHECK (f1 > 0) CHECK (f1 < 10)) to work
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by searching for non-conflicting constraint names, and prefix with table name
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2003-11-09 01:41:14 +01:00
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* Use more reliable method for CREATE DATABASE to get a consistent copy of db
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2004-01-06 21:01:13 +01:00
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* -Have psql \dn show only visible temp schemas using current_schemas()
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2004-01-09 22:12:55 +01:00
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* -Have psql '\i ~/<tab><tab>' actually load files it displays from home dir
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2003-11-12 05:10:43 +01:00
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* Ignore temporary tables from other session when processing inheritance
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2003-11-17 03:05:26 +01:00
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* Add GUC setting to make created tables default to WITHOUT OIDS
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2003-11-30 06:29:26 +01:00
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* Have pg_ctl look at PGHOST in case it is a socket directory
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2004-01-23 06:05:34 +01:00
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* Allow column-level privileges
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2004-04-07 19:04:45 +02:00
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* Add a session mode to warn about non-standard SQL usage
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2004-05-11 22:23:05 +02:00
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* Add MERGE command that does UPDATE/DELETE, or on failure, INSERT (rules, triggers?)
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2003-11-09 01:41:14 +01:00
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2001-05-10 22:26:45 +02:00
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* ALTER
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2004-05-05 16:36:20 +02:00
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o -ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN does not honor DEFAULT and non-CHECK CONSTRAINT
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o -ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN column DEFAULT should fill existing
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2001-11-29 16:39:11 +01:00
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rows with DEFAULT value
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2004-05-06 21:32:09 +02:00
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o -ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN column SERIAL doesn't create sequence because
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2002-09-02 18:21:30 +02:00
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of the item above
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2003-03-06 03:29:44 +01:00
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o Have ALTER TABLE rename SERIAL sequences
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2004-05-05 16:36:20 +02:00
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o -Allow ALTER TABLE to modify column lengths and change to binary
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2003-06-24 04:53:36 +02:00
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compatible types
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2003-08-07 01:36:02 +02:00
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o Add ALTER DATABASE ... OWNER TO newowner
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2003-09-05 03:10:07 +02:00
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o Allow ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... RENAME
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2003-09-09 00:48:21 +02:00
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o Allow ALTER TABLE to change constraint deferrability and actions
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2004-02-11 23:04:35 +01:00
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o Disallow dropping of an inherited constraint
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2004-02-17 16:37:48 +01:00
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o Allow the schema of objects to be changed
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2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
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2001-01-11 22:07:07 +01:00
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* CLUSTER
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2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
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o Automatically maintain clustering on a table
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2004-05-02 14:27:45 +02:00
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o Add ALTER TABLE table SET WITHOUT CLUSTER (Christopher)
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2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
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2001-05-10 22:26:45 +02:00
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* COPY
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2004-04-19 19:03:13 +02:00
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o -Allow dump/load of CSV format
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2002-01-03 19:25:43 +01:00
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o Allow COPY to report error lines and continue; optionally
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2002-01-24 23:19:48 +01:00
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allow error codes to be specified; requires savepoints or can
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2002-01-24 23:20:18 +01:00
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not be run in a multi-statement transaction
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2003-06-06 21:46:20 +02:00
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o Allow COPY to understand \x as hex
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o Have COPY return number of rows loaded/unloaded
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2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
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2001-05-10 22:26:45 +02:00
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* CURSOR
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2002-01-25 03:33:39 +01:00
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o Allow UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF cursor using per-cursor tid
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< * Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
< number, not just messages (Peter E)
< * Add error codes (Peter E)
< * Make error messages more consistent [error]
> * -Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
> number, not just messages (Tom)
> * -Add error codes (Tom)
> * -Make error messages more consistent
40c40
< * Add GUC log_statement_and_duration to print statement and >= min duration
> * -Add GUC log_statement_and_duration to print statement and >= min duration
84c84
< * Allow current datestyle to restrict dates; prevent month/day swapping
> * -Allow current datestyle to restrict dates; prevent month/day swapping
86c86
< * Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
> * -Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
88c88
< * Delay resolution of array expression type so assignment coercion
> * -Delay resolution of array expression type so assignment coercion
93c93
< o Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
> o -Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
116c116
< * Remove Cyrillic recode support
> * -Remove Cyrillic recode support
144c144
< * Certain indexes will not shrink, e.g. indexes on ever-increasing
> * -Certain indexes will not shrink, e.g. indexes on ever-increasing
185c185
< * Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds in ISO datestyle
> * -Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds in ISO datestyle
196c196
< o -Add ALTER TABLE tab SET WITHOUT OIDS (Rod)
> o --Add ALTER TABLE tab SET WITHOUT OIDS (Rod)
221c221
< stored in the backend
> stored in the backend (Gavin)
235c235
< o Allow EXPLAIN EXECUTE to see prepared plans
> o -Allow EXPLAIN EXECUTE to see prepared plans
241d240
< o Add untrusted version of plpython
265c264
< * Allow psql to show transaction status if backend protocol changes made
> * -Allow psql to show transaction status if backend protocol changes made
272,273c271,272
< * Modify pg_get_triggerdef() to take a boolean to pretty-print,
< and use that as part of pg_dump along with psql
> * -Modify pg_get_triggerdef() to take a boolean to pretty-print,
> and use that as part of pg_dump along with psql
292c291
< o Add SQLSTATE
> o -Add SQLSTATE
296c295
< o Implement SQLDA (do we really need this?)
> o -Implement SQLDA
364d362
< * Allow binding query args over FE/BE protocol
378c376,377
< * Provide automatic running of vacuum in the background (Tom) [vacuum]
> * Provide automatic running of vacuum in the background in backend
> rather than in /contrib [vacuum]
427c426
< * Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
> * -Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
429c428
< * Allow merge and hash joins on expressions not just simple variables (Tom)
> * -Allow merge and hash joins on expressions not just simple variables (Tom)
474c473
< * Remove memory/file descriptor freeing befor elog(ERROR) (Bruce)
> * Remove memory/file descriptor freeing before ereport(ERROR) (Bruce)
489,490c488,489
< o Show transaction status in psql
< o Allow binding of query parameters, support for prepared queries
> o -Show transaction status in psql
> o -Allow binding of query parameters, support for prepared queries
492,494c491,493
< o Remove hard-coded limits on user/db/password names
< o Remove unused elements of startup packet (unused, tty, passlength)
< o Fix COPY/fastpath protocol?
> o -Remove hard-coded limits on user/db/password names
> o -Remove unused elements of startup packet (unused, tty, passlength)
> o -Fix COPY/fastpath protocol
496,497c495
< o Replication support?
< o Error codes
> o -Error codes
500d497
< o ecpg improvements?
503c500
< o Report server version number, database encoding, client encoding
> o -Report server version number, database encoding, client encoding
2003-08-08 04:00:20 +02:00
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stored in the backend (Gavin)
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2001-11-29 06:53:46 +01:00
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o Prevent DROP of table being referenced by our own open cursor
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2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
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2001-05-10 22:26:45 +02:00
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* INSERT
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2001-07-16 07:00:29 +02:00
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o Allow INSERT/UPDATE of system-generated oid value for a row
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o Allow INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..)
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2001-11-23 03:22:04 +01:00
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o Allow INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING new.col or old.col; handle
|
2001-09-06 02:23:42 +02:00
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RULE cases (Philip)
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2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
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2001-05-10 22:26:45 +02:00
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* SHOW/SET
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2001-07-16 07:00:29 +02:00
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o Add SET PERFORMANCE_TIPS option to suggest INDEX, VACUUM, VACUUM
|
2001-05-10 22:26:45 +02:00
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ANALYZE, and CLUSTER
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2003-10-21 04:48:09 +02:00
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o Add SET PATH for schemas
|
2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
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2001-11-23 03:22:04 +01:00
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* SERVER-SIDE LANGUAGES
|
2001-11-23 02:48:38 +01:00
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o Allow PL/PgSQL's RAISE function to take expressions
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o Change PL/PgSQL to use palloc() instead of malloc()
|
2004-04-14 20:33:03 +02:00
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o Allow Java server-side programming [java] (Dave)
|
2002-03-25 04:37:01 +01:00
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o Fix problems with complex temporary table creation/destruction
|
2002-04-18 19:26:03 +02:00
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without using PL/PgSQL EXECUTE, needs cache prevention/invalidation
|
2002-04-09 15:46:55 +02:00
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o Fix PL/pgSQL RENAME to work on variables other than OLD/NEW
|
2002-08-14 04:49:42 +02:00
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o Improve PL/PgSQL exception handling
|
2004-01-07 18:54:19 +01:00
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o Allow parameters to be specified by name and type during definition
|
2002-08-14 20:39:05 +02:00
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o Allow function parameters to be passed by name,
|
2002-08-14 04:49:42 +02:00
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get_employee_salary(emp_id => 12345, tax_year => 2001)
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o Add PL/PgSQL packages
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2002-09-02 00:36:11 +02:00
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o Add table function support to pltcl, plperl, plpython
|
2003-07-22 03:06:51 +02:00
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o Allow PL/pgSQL to name columns by ordinal position, e.g. rec.(3)
|
2003-08-01 23:44:05 +02:00
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o Allow PL/pgSQL EXECUTE query_var INTO record_var;
|
2003-08-08 19:13:02 +02:00
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o Add capability to create and call PROCEDURES
|
2003-10-10 01:41:22 +02:00
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o Allow PL/pgSQL to handle %TYPE arrays, e.g. tab.col%TYPE[]
|
2002-08-14 04:51:13 +02:00
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2002-10-04 04:28:42 +02:00
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2002-04-25 22:20:50 +02:00
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Clients
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=======
|
1999-07-06 22:41:22 +02:00
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2003-05-24 20:25:35 +02:00
|
|
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* Add XML capability to pg_dump and COPY, when backend XML capability
|
2004-04-19 17:37:56 +02:00
|
|
|
* -Allow psql \du to show users, and add \dg for groups
|
2003-11-30 05:07:04 +01:00
|
|
|
* Allow clients to query a list of WITH HOLD cursors and prepared statements
|
2003-08-25 06:10:59 +02:00
|
|
|
* Add a libpq function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability
|
2003-10-10 04:42:09 +02:00
|
|
|
* Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name
|
2003-12-08 14:04:14 +01:00
|
|
|
* -Allow pg_dump to dump CREATE CONVERSION (Christopher)
|
2003-10-21 04:48:09 +02:00
|
|
|
* Allow fastpast to pass values in portable format
|
2004-01-30 12:11:07 +01:00
|
|
|
* Allow libpq to return information about prepared queries
|
2004-02-03 17:53:56 +01:00
|
|
|
* Make pg_restore continue after errors, so it acts more like pg_dump scripts
|
2004-02-20 21:37:11 +01:00
|
|
|
* Have psql show more information about sequences
|
2004-03-16 17:13:38 +01:00
|
|
|
* Allow pg_dumpall to use non-text output formats
|
2004-03-24 19:15:56 +01:00
|
|
|
* Have pg_dump use multi-statement transactions for INSERT dumps
|
2004-03-31 03:04:49 +02:00
|
|
|
* Move psql backslash database information into the backend, use nmumonic
|
|
|
|
commands? [psql]
|
2004-03-16 17:13:38 +01:00
|
|
|
|
2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
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|
|
2001-06-26 06:04:49 +02:00
|
|
|
* JDBC
|
2001-07-16 07:00:29 +02:00
|
|
|
o Comprehensive test suite. This may be available already.
|
|
|
|
o JDBC-standard BLOB support
|
|
|
|
o Error Codes (pending backend implementation)
|
2002-01-03 06:48:48 +01:00
|
|
|
o Support both 'make' and 'ant'
|
2001-11-26 07:08:03 +01:00
|
|
|
o Fix LargeObject API to handle OIDs as unsigned ints
|
|
|
|
o Use cursors implicitly to avoid large results (see setCursorName())
|
2002-02-25 19:48:54 +01:00
|
|
|
o Add LISTEN/NOTIFY support to the JDBC driver (Barry)
|
2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
|
|
|
|
2001-10-31 02:56:55 +01:00
|
|
|
* ECPG
|
2003-06-15 12:34:10 +02:00
|
|
|
o Docs
|
2001-11-01 21:06:59 +01:00
|
|
|
o Implement set descriptor, using descriptor
|
2001-10-31 16:11:08 +01:00
|
|
|
o Solve cardinality > 1 for input descriptors / variables
|
2001-11-01 21:06:59 +01:00
|
|
|
o Improve error handling
|
|
|
|
o Add a semantic check level, e.g. check if a table really exists
|
2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
|
|
|
o fix handling of DB attributes that are arrays
|
2004-05-07 04:40:43 +02:00
|
|
|
o Use backend PREPARE/EXECUTE facility for ecpg where possible
|
2003-08-08 20:55:35 +02:00
|
|
|
o Implement SQLDA
|
2003-06-15 12:34:10 +02:00
|
|
|
o Fix nested C comments
|
|
|
|
o sqlwarn[6] should be 'W' if the PRECISION or SCALE value specified
|
2003-12-16 02:35:40 +01:00
|
|
|
o Make SET CONNECTION thread-aware, non-standard?
|
2004-03-07 15:35:47 +01:00
|
|
|
o Allow multidimensional arrays
|
1999-06-07 04:42:07 +02:00
|
|
|
|
2002-12-02 06:42:36 +01:00
|
|
|
* Python
|
2003-03-06 03:29:44 +01:00
|
|
|
o Allow users to register their own types with pg_
|
2002-12-02 06:42:36 +01:00
|
|
|
o Allow SELECT to return a dictionary of dictionaries
|
|
|
|
o Allow COPY BINARY FROM
|
|
|
|
|
2002-02-03 20:24:30 +01:00
|
|
|
|
2002-04-25 22:20:50 +02:00
|
|
|
Referential Integrity
|
|
|
|
=====================
|
2000-04-28 21:15:49 +02:00
|
|
|
|
2004-02-12 18:31:09 +01:00
|
|
|
* Add MATCH PARTIAL referential integrity
|
2000-06-11 00:12:18 +02:00
|
|
|
* Add deferred trigger queue file (Jan)
|
2003-07-31 17:07:17 +02:00
|
|
|
* Implement dirty reads or shared row locks and use them in RI triggers
|
2001-01-12 06:23:10 +01:00
|
|
|
* Enforce referential integrity for system tables
|
2001-05-10 19:29:55 +02:00
|
|
|
* Change foreign key constraint for array -> element to mean element
|
2001-09-23 06:08:38 +02:00
|
|
|
in array
|
2002-06-07 06:19:52 +02:00
|
|
|
* Allow DEFERRABLE UNIQUE constraints
|
2002-08-26 22:02:45 +02:00
|
|
|
* Allow triggers to be disabled [trigger]
|
2003-05-24 03:27:41 +02:00
|
|
|
* With disabled triggers, allow pg_dump to use ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY
|
2003-10-21 04:48:09 +02:00
|
|
|
* Allow statement-level triggers to access modified rows
|
2002-11-24 04:14:01 +01:00
|
|
|
* Support triggers on columns (Neil)
|
2003-07-21 21:04:54 +02:00
|
|
|
* Have AFTER triggers execute after the appropriate SQL statement in a
|
|
|
|
function, not at the end of the function
|
2003-09-05 02:50:40 +02:00
|
|
|
* Print table names with constraint names in error messages, or make constraint
|
|
|
|
names unique within a schema
|
2004-03-14 00:17:39 +01:00
|
|
|
* -Issue NOTICE if foreign key data requires costly test to match primary key
|
2003-10-09 00:29:58 +02:00
|
|
|
* Remove CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER
|
2004-04-20 16:03:30 +02:00
|
|
|
* Allow AFTER triggers on system tables
|
2003-09-10 22:17:21 +02:00
|
|
|
|
2002-08-14 04:51:13 +02:00
|
|
|
|
2002-04-25 22:20:50 +02:00
|
|
|
Dependency Checking
|
|
|
|
===================
|
2001-07-16 07:00:29 +02:00
|
|
|
|
2002-02-04 21:46:36 +01:00
|
|
|
* Flush cached query plans when their underlying catalog data changes
|
2003-12-07 01:54:05 +01:00
|
|
|
* -Use dependency information to dump data in proper order
|
2003-09-10 02:03:23 +02:00
|
|
|
* Have pg_dump -c clear the database using dependency information
|
2002-02-03 20:24:30 +01:00
|
|
|
|
2002-04-17 22:35:23 +02:00
|
|
|
|
2002-04-25 22:20:50 +02:00
|
|
|
Exotic Features
|
|
|
|
===============
|
1999-07-09 05:28:53 +02:00
|
|
|
|
2002-12-05 21:30:36 +01:00
|
|
|
* Add SQL99 WITH clause to SELECT (Tom, Fernando)
|
|
|
|
* Add SQL99 WITH RECURSIVE to SELECT (Tom, Fernando)
|
2001-05-10 22:26:45 +02:00
|
|
|
* Add pre-parsing phase that converts non-ANSI features to supported features
|
2001-07-20 18:14:55 +02:00
|
|
|
* Allow plug-in modules to emulate features from other databases
|
2001-05-17 02:10:08 +02:00
|
|
|
* SQL*Net listener that makes PostgreSQL appear as an Oracle database
|
2000-09-30 04:20:53 +02:00
|
|
|
to clients
|
2003-10-08 23:44:06 +02:00
|
|
|
* Add two-phase commit to all distributed transactions with
|
|
|
|
offline/readonly server status or administrator notification for failure
|
2004-02-13 05:47:13 +01:00
|
|
|
* Allow cross-db queries with transaction semantics
|
1999-07-09 05:28:53 +02:00
|
|
|
|
2001-07-09 23:32:06 +02:00
|
|
|
|
1996-10-04 17:15:24 +02:00
|
|
|
PERFORMANCE
|
2002-02-03 20:24:30 +01:00
|
|
|
===========
|
|
|
|
|
1999-07-06 22:41:22 +02:00
|
|
|
|
2002-04-25 22:20:50 +02:00
|
|
|
Fsync
|
|
|
|
=====
|
1999-07-06 22:41:22 +02:00
|
|
|
|
2004-02-12 18:32:38 +01:00
|
|
|
* Delay fsync() when other backends are about to commit too
|
2001-07-16 07:00:29 +02:00
|
|
|
o Determine optimal commit_delay value
|
2001-03-20 21:31:07 +01:00
|
|
|
* Determine optimal fdatasync/fsync, O_SYNC/O_DSYNC options
|
2001-07-16 07:00:29 +02:00
|
|
|
o Allow multiple blocks to be written to WAL with one write()
|
1999-06-07 04:42:07 +02:00
|
|
|
|
1999-07-06 22:41:22 +02:00
|
|
|
|
2002-04-25 22:20:50 +02:00
|
|
|
Cache
|
|
|
|
=====
|
1997-10-17 16:30:26 +02:00
|
|
|
* Shared catalog cache, reduce lseek()'s by caching table size in shared area
|
2003-12-13 21:02:01 +01:00
|
|
|
* Add free-behind capability for large sequential scans [fadvise]
|
2002-01-05 05:03:47 +01:00
|
|
|
* Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching
|
2003-02-14 14:11:44 +01:00
|
|
|
* Cache last known per-tuple offsets to speed long tuple access
|
2003-06-28 20:05:12 +02:00
|
|
|
* Automatically place fixed-width, NOT NULL columns first in a table
|
2003-10-04 20:19:57 +02:00
|
|
|
* Use a fixed row count and a +/- count with MVCC visibility rules
|
2003-10-10 03:52:15 +02:00
|
|
|
to allow fast COUNT(*) queries with no WHERE clause(?) [count]
|
1999-06-07 04:42:07 +02:00
|
|
|
|
2002-02-03 20:24:30 +01:00
|
|
|
|
2002-04-25 22:20:50 +02:00
|
|
|
Vacuum
|
|
|
|
======
|
2001-02-28 19:07:15 +01:00
|
|
|
|
2004-02-12 19:09:43 +01:00
|
|
|
* Improve speed with indexes (perhaps recreate index instead)
|
2001-02-28 19:07:15 +01:00
|
|
|
* Reduce lock time by moving tuples with read lock, then write
|
2004-02-12 19:09:43 +01:00
|
|
|
lock and truncate table
|
Update done items:
< * Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
< number, not just messages (Peter E)
< * Add error codes (Peter E)
< * Make error messages more consistent [error]
> * -Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
> number, not just messages (Tom)
> * -Add error codes (Tom)
> * -Make error messages more consistent
40c40
< * Add GUC log_statement_and_duration to print statement and >= min duration
> * -Add GUC log_statement_and_duration to print statement and >= min duration
84c84
< * Allow current datestyle to restrict dates; prevent month/day swapping
> * -Allow current datestyle to restrict dates; prevent month/day swapping
86c86
< * Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
> * -Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
88c88
< * Delay resolution of array expression type so assignment coercion
> * -Delay resolution of array expression type so assignment coercion
93c93
< o Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
> o -Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
116c116
< * Remove Cyrillic recode support
> * -Remove Cyrillic recode support
144c144
< * Certain indexes will not shrink, e.g. indexes on ever-increasing
> * -Certain indexes will not shrink, e.g. indexes on ever-increasing
185c185
< * Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds in ISO datestyle
> * -Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds in ISO datestyle
196c196
< o -Add ALTER TABLE tab SET WITHOUT OIDS (Rod)
> o --Add ALTER TABLE tab SET WITHOUT OIDS (Rod)
221c221
< stored in the backend
> stored in the backend (Gavin)
235c235
< o Allow EXPLAIN EXECUTE to see prepared plans
> o -Allow EXPLAIN EXECUTE to see prepared plans
241d240
< o Add untrusted version of plpython
265c264
< * Allow psql to show transaction status if backend protocol changes made
> * -Allow psql to show transaction status if backend protocol changes made
272,273c271,272
< * Modify pg_get_triggerdef() to take a boolean to pretty-print,
< and use that as part of pg_dump along with psql
> * -Modify pg_get_triggerdef() to take a boolean to pretty-print,
> and use that as part of pg_dump along with psql
292c291
< o Add SQLSTATE
> o -Add SQLSTATE
296c295
< o Implement SQLDA (do we really need this?)
> o -Implement SQLDA
364d362
< * Allow binding query args over FE/BE protocol
378c376,377
< * Provide automatic running of vacuum in the background (Tom) [vacuum]
> * Provide automatic running of vacuum in the background in backend
> rather than in /contrib [vacuum]
427c426
< * Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
> * -Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
429c428
< * Allow merge and hash joins on expressions not just simple variables (Tom)
> * -Allow merge and hash joins on expressions not just simple variables (Tom)
474c473
< * Remove memory/file descriptor freeing befor elog(ERROR) (Bruce)
> * Remove memory/file descriptor freeing before ereport(ERROR) (Bruce)
489,490c488,489
< o Show transaction status in psql
< o Allow binding of query parameters, support for prepared queries
> o -Show transaction status in psql
> o -Allow binding of query parameters, support for prepared queries
492,494c491,493
< o Remove hard-coded limits on user/db/password names
< o Remove unused elements of startup packet (unused, tty, passlength)
< o Fix COPY/fastpath protocol?
> o -Remove hard-coded limits on user/db/password names
> o -Remove unused elements of startup packet (unused, tty, passlength)
> o -Fix COPY/fastpath protocol
496,497c495
< o Replication support?
< o Error codes
> o -Error codes
500d497
< o ecpg improvements?
503c500
< o Report server version number, database encoding, client encoding
> o -Report server version number, database encoding, client encoding
2003-08-08 04:00:20 +02:00
|
|
|
* Provide automatic running of vacuum in the background in backend
|
2004-02-12 19:09:43 +01:00
|
|
|
rather than in /contrib
|
2002-08-27 18:19:46 +02:00
|
|
|
* Allow free space map to be auto-sized or warn when it is too small
|
2003-09-05 04:51:55 +02:00
|
|
|
* Maintain a map of recently-expired of pages so vacuum can reclaim
|
|
|
|
free space without a sequential scan
|
2003-10-09 21:36:27 +02:00
|
|
|
* Have VACUUM FULL use REINDEX rather than index vacuum
|
2002-04-17 22:35:23 +02:00
|
|
|
|
2002-09-05 00:09:47 +02:00
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* Make locking of shared data structures more fine-grained
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* Add code to detect an SMP machine and handle spinlocks accordingly
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2002-01-22 23:22:34 +01:00
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1999-07-06 22:41:22 +02:00
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2001-05-10 22:26:45 +02:00
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* Experiment with multi-threaded backend [thread]
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2000-10-11 20:09:38 +02:00
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* Add connection pooling [pool]
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Index: TODO
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RCS file: /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/TODO,v
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diff -r1.311 TODO
3c3
< Last updated: Tue Jan 2 21:23:11 EST 2001
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> Last updated: Wed Jan 3 01:56:41 EST 2001
10c10
< A dash(-) marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 7.1 release.
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> A dash (-) marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 7.1 release.
23c23
< * -Creating index of TIMESTAMP & RELTIME fails, or rename to DATETIME(Thomas)
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> * -Creating index of TIMESTAMP & RELTIME fails, or rename to DATETIME (Thomas)
35c35
< * -Views containing aggregates sometimes fail(Jan)
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> * -Views containing aggregates sometimes fail (Jan)
37,38c37,38
< duplicates(inherit)
< * -Disallow LOCK on view(Mark Hollomon)
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> duplicates (inherit)
> * -Disallow LOCK on view (Mark Hollomon)
58,60c58,60
< * -Add OUTER joins, left and right[outer](Tom, Thomas)
< * -Allow long tuples by chaining or auto-storing outside db (TOAST)(Jan)
< * Fix memory leak for expressions[memory](Tom?)
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> * -Add OUTER joins, left and right[outer] (Tom, Thomas)
> * -Allow long tuples by chaining or auto-storing outside db (TOAST) (Jan)
> * Fix memory leak for expressions[memory] (Tom?)
70c70
< * Allow row re-use without vacuum(Vadim)
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> * Allow row re-use without vacuum (Vadim)
74c74
< * More access control over who can create tables and use locks(Karel)
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> * More access control over who can create tables and use locks (Karel)
92c92
< o -Fix large object mapping scheme, own typeid or reltype(Peter)
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> o -Fix large object mapping scheme, own typeid or reltype (Peter)
97c97
< * Fix improper masking of some inet/cidr types [cidr]
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> * -Fix improper masking of some inet/cidr types [cidr]
113c113
< * Get BIT type working
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> * -Get BIT type working
119c119
< * Update macaddr manufacturer numbers, or remove the function macaddr_manuf()
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> * -Update macaddr manufacturer numbers, or remove the function macaddr_manuf()
147c147
< * -Add ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN feature(Peter E)
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> * -Add ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN feature (Peter E)
157c157
< * Auto-destroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL(Ryan)
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> * Auto-destroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL (Ryan)
166a167
> * Allow INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..)
172d172
< * Allow INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..)
176c176
< * Make NULL's come out at the beginning or end depending on the
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> * Make NULL's come out at the beginning or end depending on the
220c220
< * Certain indexes will not shrink, i.e. oid indexes with many inserts(Vadim)
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> * Certain indexes will not shrink, i.e. oid indexes with many inserts (Vadim)
226c226
< with after-row images(Vadim) [logging](Vadim)
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> with after-row images (Vadim) [logging]
232c232
< * -Redesign the function call interface to handle NULLs better[function](Tom)
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> * -Redesign the function call interface to handle NULLs better[function] (Tom)
239c239
< * Encrpyt passwords in pg_shadow table using MD5(Vince)
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> * Encrpyt passwords in pg_shadow table using MD5 (Vince)
298a299,300
> * Create a transaction processor to aid in persistent connections and
> connection pooling
307c309
< * Remove SET KSQO option now that OR processing is improved(Tom)
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> * Remove SET KSQO option now that OR processing is improved (Tom)
2001-01-03 07:56:52 +01:00
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2002-01-22 21:50:35 +01:00
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* Do listen() in postmaster and accept() in pre-forked backend
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* Have pre-forked backend pre-connect to last requested database or pass
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2002-02-03 20:24:30 +01:00
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2002-01-22 21:50:35 +01:00
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2001-12-21 04:55:45 +01:00
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* Have after-change WAL write()'s write only modified data to kernel
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* Reduce number of after-change WAL writes; they exist only to gaurd against
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2002-08-27 01:13:37 +02:00
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partial page writes [wal]
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2001-12-21 04:55:45 +01:00
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* Turn off after-change writes if fsync is disabled (?)
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2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
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* Add WAL index reliability improvement to non-btree indexes
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2002-01-23 17:14:04 +01:00
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* Find proper defaults for postgresql.conf WAL entries
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2002-08-23 05:10:15 +02:00
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2003-02-18 06:15:51 +01:00
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* Allow WAL information to recover corrupted pg_controldata
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2003-05-24 17:33:46 +02:00
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2002-01-22 21:50:35 +01:00
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2004-02-12 18:38:50 +01:00
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* Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc
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2002-01-27 05:20:38 +01:00
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* Allow ORDER BY ... LIMIT to select top values without sort or index
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2002-04-18 06:07:04 +02:00
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using a sequential scan for highest/lowest values (Oleg)
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2003-03-08 05:23:05 +01:00
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* Precompile SQL functions to avoid overhead (Neil)
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2002-04-17 23:52:57 +02:00
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* Add utility to compute accurate random_page_cost value
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2002-04-23 22:26:29 +02:00
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* Improve ability to display optimizer analysis using OPTIMIZER_DEBUG
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2002-07-30 21:34:05 +02:00
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2002-10-03 21:20:25 +02:00
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2002-10-05 06:00:26 +02:00
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2003-06-02 20:42:31 +02:00
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* Improve the planner to use CHECK constraints to prune the plan (for subtables)
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2003-09-10 22:14:42 +02:00
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* Have EXPLAIN ANALYZE highlight poor optimizer estimates
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2002-02-19 22:36:58 +01:00
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* Improve caching of attribute offsets when NULLs exist in the row
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2003-02-18 03:49:30 +01:00
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* Add a script to ask system configuration questions and tune postgresql.conf
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2003-06-02 20:42:31 +02:00
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2003-11-19 18:35:40 +01:00
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2002-08-14 04:51:13 +02:00
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1999-11-10 02:22:37 +01:00
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* Add use of 'const' for variables in source tree
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2001-03-20 23:04:59 +01:00
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* Rename some /contrib modules from pg* to pg_*
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2001-11-23 03:22:04 +01:00
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* Move some things from /contrib into main tree
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2001-03-25 23:41:52 +02:00
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* Remove warnings created by -Wcast-align
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2001-03-29 02:12:57 +02:00
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* Move platform-specific ps status display info from ps_status.c to ports
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2001-12-28 19:31:14 +01:00
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* Improve access-permissions check on data directory in Cygwin (Tom)
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2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
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* Add documentation for perl, including mention of DBI/DBD perl location
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2003-06-25 23:56:55 +02:00
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* Create improved PostgreSQL introductory documentation for the PHP
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2003-11-30 04:41:10 +01:00
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manuals
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2002-01-22 22:55:06 +01:00
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* Change representation of whole-tuple parameters to functions
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2002-02-19 23:41:29 +01:00
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* Clarify use of 'application' and 'command' tags in SGML docs
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2002-02-22 02:28:15 +01:00
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* Better document ability to build only certain interfaces (Marc)
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2002-02-22 01:10:11 +01:00
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* Remove or relicense modules that are not under the BSD license, if possible
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< * Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
< number, not just messages (Peter E)
< * Add error codes (Peter E)
< * Make error messages more consistent [error]
> * -Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
> number, not just messages (Tom)
> * -Add error codes (Tom)
> * -Make error messages more consistent
40c40
< * Add GUC log_statement_and_duration to print statement and >= min duration
> * -Add GUC log_statement_and_duration to print statement and >= min duration
84c84
< * Allow current datestyle to restrict dates; prevent month/day swapping
> * -Allow current datestyle to restrict dates; prevent month/day swapping
86c86
< * Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
> * -Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
88c88
< * Delay resolution of array expression type so assignment coercion
> * -Delay resolution of array expression type so assignment coercion
93c93
< o Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
> o -Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
116c116
< * Remove Cyrillic recode support
> * -Remove Cyrillic recode support
144c144
< * Certain indexes will not shrink, e.g. indexes on ever-increasing
> * -Certain indexes will not shrink, e.g. indexes on ever-increasing
185c185
< * Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds in ISO datestyle
> * -Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds in ISO datestyle
196c196
< o -Add ALTER TABLE tab SET WITHOUT OIDS (Rod)
> o --Add ALTER TABLE tab SET WITHOUT OIDS (Rod)
221c221
< stored in the backend
> stored in the backend (Gavin)
235c235
< o Allow EXPLAIN EXECUTE to see prepared plans
> o -Allow EXPLAIN EXECUTE to see prepared plans
241d240
< o Add untrusted version of plpython
265c264
< * Allow psql to show transaction status if backend protocol changes made
> * -Allow psql to show transaction status if backend protocol changes made
272,273c271,272
< * Modify pg_get_triggerdef() to take a boolean to pretty-print,
< and use that as part of pg_dump along with psql
> * -Modify pg_get_triggerdef() to take a boolean to pretty-print,
> and use that as part of pg_dump along with psql
292c291
< o Add SQLSTATE
> o -Add SQLSTATE
296c295
< o Implement SQLDA (do we really need this?)
> o -Implement SQLDA
364d362
< * Allow binding query args over FE/BE protocol
378c376,377
< * Provide automatic running of vacuum in the background (Tom) [vacuum]
> * Provide automatic running of vacuum in the background in backend
> rather than in /contrib [vacuum]
427c426
< * Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
> * -Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
429c428
< * Allow merge and hash joins on expressions not just simple variables (Tom)
> * -Allow merge and hash joins on expressions not just simple variables (Tom)
474c473
< * Remove memory/file descriptor freeing befor elog(ERROR) (Bruce)
> * Remove memory/file descriptor freeing before ereport(ERROR) (Bruce)
489,490c488,489
< o Show transaction status in psql
< o Allow binding of query parameters, support for prepared queries
> o -Show transaction status in psql
> o -Allow binding of query parameters, support for prepared queries
492,494c491,493
< o Remove hard-coded limits on user/db/password names
< o Remove unused elements of startup packet (unused, tty, passlength)
< o Fix COPY/fastpath protocol?
> o -Remove hard-coded limits on user/db/password names
> o -Remove unused elements of startup packet (unused, tty, passlength)
> o -Fix COPY/fastpath protocol
496,497c495
< o Replication support?
< o Error codes
> o -Error codes
500d497
< o ecpg improvements?
503c500
< o Report server version number, database encoding, client encoding
> o -Report server version number, database encoding, client encoding
2003-08-08 04:00:20 +02:00
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* Remove memory/file descriptor freeing before ereport(ERROR) (Bruce)
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2002-11-02 06:42:01 +01:00
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* Acquire lock on a relation before building a relcache entry for it
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2002-11-08 05:31:14 +01:00
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* Research interaction of setitimer() and sleep() used by statement_timeout
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2004-01-26 23:38:42 +01:00
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* -Add checks for fclose() failure (Tom)
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2004-02-17 16:46:44 +01:00
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* -Change CVS ID to PostgreSQL
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2004-04-20 06:26:27 +02:00
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* -Exit postmaster if postgresql.conf can not be opened
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2003-06-24 04:54:23 +02:00
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* Rename /scripts directory because they are all C programs now
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2003-06-24 05:40:09 +02:00
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* Allow the regression tests to start postmaster with -i so the tests
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can be run on systems that don't support unix-domain sockets
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2003-06-25 04:43:54 +02:00
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* Allow creation of a libpq-only tarball
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2003-06-25 23:40:48 +02:00
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* Promote debug_query_string into a server-side function current_query()
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2003-06-25 23:42:07 +02:00
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* Allow the identifier length to be increased via a configure option
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2004-01-23 16:13:30 +01:00
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* Improve CREATE SCHEMA regression test
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2004-05-18 18:06:08 +02:00
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* Allow binaries to be statically linked so they are more easily relocated
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2003-06-25 04:43:54 +02:00
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2002-03-08 05:33:53 +01:00
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2003-02-18 03:49:30 +01:00
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* Wire Protocol Changes
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o Dynamic character set handling
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o Add decoded type, length, precision
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o Compression?
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2003-05-25 06:44:41 +02:00
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o Update clients to use data types, typmod, schema.table.column names of
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result sets using new query protocol
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* Alvaro is Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
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2002-02-25 19:48:54 +01:00
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* Barry is Barry Lind <barry@xythos.com>
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2001-07-16 07:00:29 +02:00
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* Billy is Billy G. Allie <Bill.Allie@mug.org>
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2002-12-24 23:06:53 +01:00
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* Bruce is Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> of Software Research Assoc.
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* Christopher is Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> of
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Family Health Network
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* D'Arcy is D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net> of The Cain Gang Ltd.
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* Dave is Dave Cramer <dave@fastcrypt.com>
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2001-07-16 07:00:29 +02:00
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* Edmund is Edmund Mergl <E.Mergl@bawue.de>
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* Fernando is Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com> of Red Hat
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* Gavin is Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au> of Alcove Systems Engineering
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* Greg is Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>
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* Hiroshi is Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>
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* Karel is Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
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* Jan is Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> of Afilias, Inc.
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* Joe is Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
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* Liam is Liam Stewart <liams@redhat.com> of Red Hat
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* Marc is Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> of PostgreSQL, Inc.
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2001-07-16 07:00:29 +02:00
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* Mark is Mark Hollomon <mhh@mindspring.com>
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2002-12-24 23:06:53 +01:00
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* Michael is Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> of Credativ
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* Neil is Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
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* Oleg is Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
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* Peter M is Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk> of Retep Software
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* Peter E is Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
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* Philip is Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> of Albatross Consulting Pty. Ltd.
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* Rod is Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>
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* Ross is Ross J. Reedstrom <reedstrm@wallace.ece.rice.edu>
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* Stephan is Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
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* Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> of Software Research Assoc.
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* Thomas is Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org> of Jet Propulsion Labratory
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* Tom is Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> of Red Hat
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