From 18af18dface6b562c5049f2448878c25c38db2e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 05:27:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Prepare for 6.3 release. --- HISTORY | 2 +- doc/TODO | 39 +++------------------------------------ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index f6d06df191..ecf46b75a1 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -125,7 +125,6 @@ New frontend/backend protocol has a version number, network byte order(Phil) Security features in pg_hba.conf enhanced and documented, many cleanups(Phil) CHAR() now faster access than VARCHAR() or TEXT ecpg embedded SQL preprocessor -Add GROUP BY to INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM table2 Reduce system column overhead(Vadmin) Remove pg_time table(Vadim) Add pg_type attribute to identify types that need length (bpchar, varchar) @@ -134,6 +133,7 @@ Allow VIEW permissions to be set separately from the underlying tables. For security, use GRANT/REVOKE on views as appropriate(Jan) Tables now have no default GRANT SELECT TO PUBLIC. You must explicitly grant such permissions. +Clean up tutorial examples(Darren) Source Tree Changes ------------------- diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO index 82ceb889ba..62246095db 100644 --- a/doc/TODO +++ b/doc/TODO @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ TODO list for PostgreSQL ======================== -Last updated: Sat Feb 28 10:00:29 EST 1998 +Last updated: Sun Mar 1 00:18:59 EST 1998 Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us) @@ -62,24 +62,17 @@ RELIABILITY ----------- * Overhaul mdmgr/smgr to fix double unlinking and double opens, cleanup * Overhaul bufmgr/lockmgr/transaction manager -* -Fix CLUSTER * Remove EXTEND? -* -Aggregates on VIEW always returns zero (maybe because there is no oid for views?) * CREATE VIEW requires super-user priviledge * Can lo_export()/lo_import() read/write anywhere, causing a security problem? * Tables that start with xinv confused to be large objects * Two and three dimmensional arrays display improperly, missing {} -* -Add GROUP BY to INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM table2 +* GROUP BY in INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM table2 fails * lo_unlink() crashes server * Prevent auto-table reference, like SELECT table.col WHERE col = 3 (?) -* -Remove un-needed malloc() calls and replace with palloc(). * SELECT * FROM table WHERE int4_column = '1' fails * SELECT a[1] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[1] -* -SELECT COUNT(*) FROM TAB1, TAB2 fails -* -SELECT SUM(2+2) FROM table dumps core * UPDATE table SET table.value = 3 fails -* -UPDATE key_table SET keyval=count(reftab.num) fails -* -INSERT INTO ... SELECT DISTINCT ... does not accept DISTINCT * Make pg_dump preserve inheritance column order, do non-inherits first * User who can create databases can modify pg_database table * optimizer memory exhaustion with many OR's @@ -88,20 +81,14 @@ RELIABILITY ENHANCEMENTS ------------ * Replace table-level locking with row or page-level locking(Vadim) -* -PRIMARY KEY during table creation(Thomas) * Add SERIAL type -* -Preserve GRANT/REVOKE/pg_group in pg_dump * Transaction log, so re-do log can be on a separate disk * Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance * More access control over who can create tables and access the database * Add full ANSI SQL capabilities - * -add subselects(Vadim) * Implement HAVING clause - * -Implement EXISTS qualifier - * -report "Not implemented" if valid syntax is supplied * add OUTER joins, left and right (Thomas) * make VIEWs updateable where possible - * -add UNIONS(Bruce) * add INTERSECTS, SUBTRACTS * add temporary tables(Bruce) * add sql3 recursive unions @@ -116,8 +103,6 @@ ENHANCEMENTS * Full set of text operations and functions * word searches, concat,max() on text, char * Large objects - * -overwriting blocks has problems(Peter) - * -there are other problems, too.(Peter) * Fix large object mapping scheme, own reltype * not to stuff everything as files in a single directory * Better interface for adding to pg_group @@ -126,13 +111,6 @@ ENHANCEMENTS * Threaded version of the server or libpq * Allow libpq to cancel query requests * Add REGEX internationalization -* -Add other language types for built-in functions - * expand to allow tcl, perl, java - * generalize the function manager switch to pass - * function sources to interpreter engines. -* -remove time-travel feature(Vadim) -* -reduce system column overhead(Vadmin) -* -remove pg_time table(Vadim) * allow row re-use without vacuum, maybe?(Vadim) * Remove restriction that ORDER BY field must be in SELECT list * Add word index for text fields, maybe with trigrams, i.e.: @@ -142,29 +120,19 @@ ENHANCEMENTS * Allow INSERT INTO ... SELECT to convert column types * Add syslog functionality(Marc) * Add STDDEV/VARIANCE() function for standard deviation computation/variance -* -Add table/column/function discription table indexed by oid -* -add pg_type attribute to identify types that need length (bpchar, varchar) * add UNIQUE capability to non-btree indexes * make number of backends a config parameter, storage/sinvaladt.h:MaxBackendId * certain indexes will not shrink, i.e. oid indexes with many inserts * make NULL's come out at the beginning or end depending on the ORDER BY direction * change the library/backend interface to use network byte order -* -allow unix domain sockets for local connections for performance and security -* -Add PAGER for psql's \dt, \d, \z tablename -* -Make timezone set-able by client applications(Thomas) * Restore unused oid's on backend exit if no one else has gotten oids * remove non-standard types from the system, and make them loadable -* -make reads queue behind a write waiting for a lock(Bruce) -* -add LOCK statement(Bruce) -* -add report of offending line when COPY command fails * have UPDATE/DELETE clean out indexes -* -allow varchar() to only store used bytes, not maximum * allow WHERE restriction on ctid * allow pg_descriptions when creating types, tables, columns, and functions * Fix compile and security of Kerberos/GSSAPI code * Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from ""(?) * Allow variable casts with BETWEEN 'today'::asbtime AND 'today'::abstime -* -Allow VIEW permissions to be set separately from the underlying tables * Allow INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... FROM view to work * Allow text, char(), and varchar() overhead to be only 2 bytes, not 4 bytes * Make VACUUM on database not lock pg_class @@ -180,7 +148,6 @@ ENHANCEMENTS PERFORMANCE ----------- * Use indexes in ORDER BY, min(), max()(Costin Oproiu) -* -Allow LIKE/wildcard matches to use indexes if the wildcard character is not first * Optimizing disjunctive queries * Fix bushy-plans (Martin) * Other optimizer bugs @@ -380,7 +347,6 @@ New frontend/backend protocol has a version number, network byte order(Phil) Security features in pg_hba.conf enhanced and documented, many cleanups(Phil) CHAR() now faster access than VARCHAR() or TEXT ecpg embedded SQL preprocessor -Add GROUP BY to INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM table2 Reduce system column overhead(Vadmin) Remove pg_time table(Vadim) Add pg_type attribute to identify types that need length (bpchar, varchar) @@ -389,6 +355,7 @@ Allow VIEW permissions to be set separately from the underlying tables. For security, use GRANT/REVOKE on views as appropriate(Jan) Tables now have no default GRANT SELECT TO PUBLIC. You must explicitly grant such permissions. +Clean up tutorial examples(Darren) Source Tree Changes -------------------