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TODO list for PostgreSQL
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Last updated: Fri Jun 4 23:16:01 EDT 1999
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Last updated: Sun Jun 6 22:08:59 EDT 1999
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us)
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@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Developers who have claimed items are:
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* David is David Hartwig <daveh@insightdist.com>
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* Edmund is Edmund Mergl <E.Mergl@bawue.de>
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* Goran is Goran Thyni <goran@kyla.kiruna.se>
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* Hiroshi is Hiroshi Inoue<Inoue@tpf.co.jp>
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* Jan is Jan Wieck <wieck@sapserv.debis.de>
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* Marc is Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
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* Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
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@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ Developers who have claimed items are:
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* Vadim is "Vadim B. Mikheev" <vadim@krs.ru>
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RELIABILITY
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* Overhaul mdmgr/smgr to fix double unlinking and double opens, cleanup
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@ -40,130 +42,152 @@ RELIABILITY
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* Remove EXTEND?
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* Tables that start with xinv confused to be large objects
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* Two and three dimensional arrays display improperly, missing {}
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* SELECT a[1] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[1]
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* UPDATE table SET table.value = 3 fails
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* Select a[1] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[1]
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* Update table SET table.value = 3 fails
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* User who can create databases can modify pg_database table
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* elog() does not free all its memory(Jan)
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* views on subselects fail
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* disallow inherited columns with the same name as new columns
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* recover or force failure when disk space is exhausted
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* views containing aggregates sometimes fail(Jan)
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* ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN does not honor DEFAULT, add CONSTRAINT
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* array index references without table name cause problems
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* views with spaces in view name fail when referenced
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* plpgsql does not handle quoted mixed-case identifiers
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* do not allow bpchar column creation without length
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* Elog() does not free all its memory(Jan)
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* Disallow inherited columns with the same name as new columns
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* Recover or force failure when disk space is exhausted
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* Views containing aggregates sometimes fail(Jan)
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* Alter TABLE ADD COLUMN does not honor DEFAULT, add CONSTRAINT
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* Array index references without table name cause problems
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* Views with spaces in view name fail when referenced
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* Plpgsql does not handle quoted mixed-case identifiers
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* Do not allow bpchar column creation without length
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* INSERT INTO ... SELECT with AS columns matching result columns problem
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ENHANCEMENTS
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* Transaction log, so re-do log can be on a separate disk
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* Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance
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* Add referential integrity
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* Add OUTER joins, left and right(Thomas)
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* Allow long tuples by chaining or auto-storing outside db (chaining,large objs)
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* Fix memory leak for expressions?, aggregates?
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Exotic features:
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* Add sql3 recursive unions
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* Add the concept of dataspaces
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* Add replication of distributed databases
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* Allow queries across multiple databases
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Admin:
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* Better interface for adding to pg_group
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* More access control over who can create tables and access the database
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* Add full ANSI SQL capabilities
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* add OUTER joins, left and right(Thomas)
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* add sql3 recursive unions
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* add the concept of dataspaces
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* add BIT, BIT VARYING
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* NCHAR (as distinguished from ordinary varchar),
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* DOMAIN capability
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* Add syslog functionality
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* Allow elog() to return error codes, not just messages
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* Allow international error message support and add error codes
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* Generate postmaster pid file and remove flock/fcntl lock code
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* Add ability to specifiy location of lock/socket files
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Types:
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* Add BIT, BIT VARYING
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* Nchar (as distinguished from ordinary varchar),
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* Domain capability
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* Add STDDEV/VARIANCE() function for standard deviation computation/variance
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* Allow compression of large fields or a compressed field type
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* Large objects
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* Fix large object mapping scheme, own typeid or reltype(Peter)
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* Allow large text type to use large objects(Peter)
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* not to stuff everything as files in a single directory
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* Better interface for adding to pg_group
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* allow row re-use without vacuum, maybe?(Vadim)
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* Populate backend status area and write program to dump status data
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* Add ALTER TABLE DROP/ALTER COLUMN feature
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* Add syslog functionality
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* Add STDDEV/VARIANCE() function for standard deviation computation/variance
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* add UNIQUE capability to non-btree indexes
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* certain indexes will not shrink, i.e. oid indexes with many inserts
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* make NULL's come out at the beginning or end depending on the ORDER BY direction
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* Restore unused oid's on backend exit if no one else has gotten oids
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* have UPDATE/DELETE clean out indexes
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* allow WHERE restriction on ctid
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* allow pg_descriptions when creating types, tables, columns, and functions
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* Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from ""(?)
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* Allow cursors to be DECLAREd/OPENed/CLOSEed outside transactions
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* Not to stuff everything as files in a single directory
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* Allow pg_descriptions when creating types, tables, columns, and functions
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* Add IPv6 capability to INET/CIDR types
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* Make a separate SERIAL type?
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* Store binary-compatible type information in the system
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* Allow user to define char1 column
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* Add support for & operator
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Views:
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* Allow DISTINCT on views
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* Allow views of aggregate columns
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* Allow flag to control COPY input/output of NULLs
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* Allow CLUSTER on all tables at once, and improve CLUSTER
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* Allow elog() to return error codes, not just messages
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* allow international error message support and add error codes
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* Allow views with subselects
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* Allow subqueries in target list
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* Allow queries across multiple databases
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* Add replication of distributed databases
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* Generate error on CREATE OPERATOR of ~~, ~ and and ~*
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* allow psql \copy to allow delimiters
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* add a function to return the last inserted oid, for use in psql scripts
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* allow creation of functional indexes to use default types
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* put sort files, large objects in their on directory
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* do autocommit so always in a transaction block
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* add SIMILAR TO to allow character classes, 'pg_[a-c]%'
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* improve reporting of syntax errors by showing location of error in query
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* allow chaining of pages to allow >8k tuples, auto-large object use
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* redesign the function call interface to handle NULLs better(Jan)
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* permissions on indexes - prevent them?
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* document/trigger/rule so changes to pg_shadow create pg_pwd
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* generate postmaster pid file and remove flock/fcntl lock code
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* add ability to specifiy location of lock/socket files
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* auto-destroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL
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* make a separate serial type?
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* allow user to define char1 column
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* allow LOCK TABLE tab1, tab2, tab3 so all tables locked in unison
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* allow INSERT/UPDATE of system-generated oid value for a row
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* missing optimizer selectivities for date, etc.
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* Add support for & operator
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* store binary-compatible type information in the system
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* Allow ESCAPE '\' at the end of LIKE for ANSI compliance
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* rewrite the LIKE handling by rewriting the user string with the
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supplied ESCAPE
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* Fix memory leak for expressions?, aggregates?
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* Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
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* Update reltuples from COPY command
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* Put sort files, large objects in their on directory
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* Do autocommit so always in a transaction block
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* Show location of syntax error in query
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* Redesign the function call interface to handle NULLs better(Jan)
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* Document/trigger/rule so changes to pg_shadow create pg_pwd
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* Missing optimizer selectivities for date, etc.
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Indexes:
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* Allow CREATE INDEX zman_index ON test (date_trunc( 'day', zman ) datetime_ops)
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fails index can't store constant parameters
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* allow SQL function indexes
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* Allow creation of functional indexes to use default types
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* Permissions on indexes - prevent them?
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* Allow SQL function indexes
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* Add FILLFACTOR to index creation
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Commands:
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* ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN to inherited table put column in wrong place
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* Add IPv6 capability to INET/CIDR types
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* Allow PQrequestCancel() to terminate when in waiting-for-lock state
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* Add ALTER TABLE DROP/ALTER COLUMN feature
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* Allow CLUSTER on all tables at once, and improve CLUSTER
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* Generate error on CREATE OPERATOR of ~~, ~ and and ~*
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* Add SIMILAR TO to allow character classes, 'pg_[a-c]%'
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* Auto-destroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL
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* Allow LOCK TABLE tab1, tab2, tab3 so all tables locked in unison
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* Allow INSERT/UPDATE of system-generated oid value for a row
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* Allow ESCAPE '\' at the end of LIKE for ANSI compliance
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* Rewrite the LIKE handling by rewriting the user string with the
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supplied ESCAPE
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* Move LIKE index optimization handling to the optimizer
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Clients:
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* Make NULL's come out at the beginning or end depending on the
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ORDER BY direction
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* Allow flag to control COPY input/output of NULLs
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* Update reltuples from COPY command
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* Allow psql \copy to allow delimiters
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* Add a function to return the last inserted oid, for use in psql scripts
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* Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from ""(?)
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* Increase identifier length(NAMEDATALEN) if small performance hit
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* Fix for long table/column name auto-sequence serial name
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* Allow row re-use without vacuum, maybe?(Vadim)
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* Add UNIQUE capability to non-btree indexes
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* Certain indexes will not shrink, i.e. oid indexes with many inserts
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* Restore unused oid's on backend exit if no one else has gotten oids
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* Have UPDATE/DELETE clean out indexes
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* Allow WHERE restriction on ctid
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* Allow cursors to be DECLAREd/OPENed/CLOSEed outside transactions
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* Allow PQrequestCancel() to terminate when in waiting-for-lock state
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* Transaction log, so re-do log can be on a separate disk
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* Populate backend status area and write program to dump status data
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* Make oid use unsigned int more reliably, pg_atoi()
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* Add PL/Perl(Mark Hollomon)
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PERFORMANCE
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* Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance
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* Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries
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* Use indexes in ORDER BY for restrictive data sets, min(), max()
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* Pull requested data directly from indexes, bypassing heap data
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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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* Use index with constants on functions
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* Allow LIMIT ability on single-table queries that have no ORDER BY to use
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a matching index
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* Pull requested data directly from indexes, bypassing heap data
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* Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries
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* Improve LIMIT processing by using index to limit rows processed
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* Cache most recent query plan(s?)
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* Shared catalog cache, reduce lseek()'s by caching table size in shared area
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* Allow compression of log and meta data
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* Add FILLFACTOR to index creation
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* update pg_statistic table to remove operator column
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* make index creation use psort code, because it is now faster(Vadim)
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* Update pg_statistic table to remove operator column
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* Make index creation use psort code, because it is now faster(Vadim)
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* Allow char() not to use variable-sized header to reduce disk size
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* Do async I/O to do better read-ahead of data
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* Fix memory exhaustion when using many OR's
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* Get faster regex() code from Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.utoronto.ca>
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when it is available
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* use mmap() rather than SYSV shared memory(?)
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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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* use index with constants on functions
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* process const = const parts of OR clause in separate pass
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* make oid use oidin/oidout not int4in/int4out in pg_type.h
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* make oid use unsigned int more reliably, pg_atoi()
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* create more system table indexes for faster cache lookups
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* Move LIKE index optimization handling to the optimizer
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* Improve LIMIT processing by using index to limit rows processed
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* Use mmap() rather than SYSV shared memory(?)
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* Process const = const parts of OR clause in separate pass
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* Make oid use oidin/oidout not int4in/int4out in pg_type.h
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* Create more system table indexes for faster cache lookups
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* Improve Subplan list handling
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* Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
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DOCUMENTATION
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@ -282,6 +282,7 @@ Fix for aggregates on array indexes(Tom)
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Fix for DEFAULT handles single quotes in value requiring too many quotes
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Fix security problem with non-super users importing/exporting large objects(Tom)
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Rollback of transaction that creates table cleaned up properly(Tom)
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Fix to allow long table and column names to generate proper serial names(Tom)
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Enhancements
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