< * Allow server configuration parameters to be remotely modified
> * Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL
>
> This would require a new global table that is dumped to flat file for
> use by the postmaster. We do a similar thing for pg_shadow currently.
>
< * Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching
> * Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching,
> especially for WAL writes
in GetNewTransactionId(). Since the limit value has to be computed
before we run any real transactions, this requires adding code to database
startup to scan pg_database and determine the oldest datfrozenxid.
This can conveniently be combined with the first stage of an attack on
the problem that the 'flat file' copies of pg_shadow and pg_group are
not properly updated during WAL recovery. The code I've added to
startup resides in a new file src/backend/utils/init/flatfiles.c, and
it is responsible for rewriting the flat files as well as initializing
the XID wraparound limit value. This will eventually allow us to get
rid of GetRawDatabaseInfo too, but we'll need an initdb so we can add
a trigger to pg_database.
more variables can be found in the libpq manual section.
Mention .pgpass in the psql manual page section dealing with connection
parameters and point to the libpq section for more details.
Backpatch to 8.0.X.
the item:
< o Automatic failover
<
< The proper solution to this will probably the use of a master/slave
< replication solution like Sloney and a connection pooling tool like
< pgpool.
<
< all temporary tables, removal of any NOTIFYs, etc. This could be used
< for connection pooling. We could also change RESET ALL to have this
< functionality.
> all temporary tables, removal of any NOTIFYs, cursors, prepared
> queries(?), currval()s, etc. This could be used for connection pooling.
> We could also change RESET ALL to have this functionality.
tests. Contributed by Koju Iijima, review from Neil Conway, Gavin Sherry
and Tom Lane.
Also, fix error in description of WITH CHECK OPTION clause in the CREATE
VIEW reference page: it should be "CASCADED", not "CASCADE".
