< * 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
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.
< BY col {DESC} LIMIT 1. Completing this item involves making this
> BY col {DESC} LIMIT 1. Completing this item involves doing this
< invalidated if anyone modifies the table.
<
> invalidated if anyone modifies the table. Another idea is to
> get a count directly from a unique index, but for this to be
> faster than a sequential scan it must avoid access to the heap
> to obtain tuple visibility information.
>
> * Allow data to be pulled directly from indexes
>
> Currently indexes do not have enough tuple tuple visibility
> information to allow data to be pulled from the index without
> also accessing the heap. One way to allow this is to set a bit
> to index tuples to indicate if a tuple is currently visible to
> all transactions when the first valid heap lookup happens. This
> bit would have to be cleared when a heap tuple is expired.
>
< * Allow building with directories containing spaces
> * Allow building in directories containing spaces
< There are two capabilities here, first the ability to build from a
< source directory that contains spaces, and second the ability to install
< into a directory that contains spaces. The first is probably not
< possible because 'gmake' and other compiler tools do not fully support
< spaces in path names. The second is possible with proper quoting in
< the makefiles. Because PostgreSQL supports relocatable installs, it
< is possible to install into a directory that doesn't contain spaces and
< then copy the install to a directory with spaces.
> This is probably not possible because 'gmake' and other compiler tools
> do not fully support quoting of paths with spaces.
>
> * Allow installing to directories containing spaces
>
> This is possible if proper quoting is added to the makefiles for the
> install targets. Because PostgreSQL supports relocatable installs, it
> is already possible to install into a directory that doesn't contain
> spaces and then copy the install to a directory with spaces.
> There are two capabilities here, first the ability to build from a
> source directory that contains spaces, and second the ability to install
> into a directory that contains spaces. The first is probably not
> possible because 'gmake' and other compiler tools do not fully support
> spaces in path names. The second is possible with proper quoting in
> the makefiles. Because PostgreSQL supports relocatable installs, it
> is possible to install into a directory that doesn't contain spaces and
> then copy the install to a directory with spaces.
< o Disallow encodings like UTF8 which which PostgreSQL supports
> o Disallow encodings like UTF8 which PostgreSQL supports
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>
> To fix UTF8, the data needs to be converted to UTF16 and then
> the Win32 strcoll() can be used.
> * Improve the background writer
>
> Allow the background writer to more efficiently write dirty buffers
> from the end of the LRU cache and use a clock sweep algorithm to
> write other dirty buffers to reduced checkpoint I/O
>
> * Allow the size of the buffer cache used by temporary objects to be
> specified as a GUC variable
>
> Larger local buffer cache sizes requires more efficient handling of
> local cache lookups.
Bruce Momjian