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TODO list for PostgreSQL |
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Last updated: Sun Mar 1 17:14:36 EST 1998 |
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Last updated: Sat Mar 21 00:26:29 EST 1998 |
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us) |
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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Developers who have claimed items are: |
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* Kurt is "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@va.pubnix.com> |
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* Marc is Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> |
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* Martin is Martin S. Utesch <utesch@aut.tu-freiberg.de> |
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* Michael is Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de> |
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* Michael is Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org> |
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* Oleg is Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> |
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* Paul is Paul M. Aoki <aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU> |
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* Patrick is Patrick van Kleef <pvk@pobox.com> |
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@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ RELIABILITY |
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* Tables that start with xinv confused to be large objects |
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* Two and three dimmensional arrays display improperly, missing {} |
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* GROUP BY in INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM table2 fails |
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* lo_unlink() crashes server |
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* Prevent auto-table reference, like SELECT table.col WHERE col = 3 (?) |
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* SELECT * FROM table WHERE int4_column = '1' fails |
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* SELECT a[1] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[1] |
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@ -77,6 +76,9 @@ RELIABILITY |
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* User who can create databases can modify pg_database table |
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* optimizer memory exhaustion with many OR's |
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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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ENHANCEMENTS |
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* Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance |
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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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* Implement HAVING clause |
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* Implement HAVING clause(Stephan) |
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* add OUTER joins, left and right (Thomas) |
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* make VIEWs updateable where possible |
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* add INTERSECTS, SUBTRACTS |
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* add INTERSECTS, SUBTRACTS(Stephan) |
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* add temporary tables(Bruce) |
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* add sql3 recursive unions |
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* add the concept of dataspaces |
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* Large objects |
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* Fix large object mapping scheme, own reltype |
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* not to stuff everything as files in a single directory |
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* Fix large object memory leaks |
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* Better interface for adding to pg_group |
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* Make MONEY/DECIMAL have a defined precision |
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* Add support for tables >2G, or test current version |
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* Fix tables >2G, or report error when 2G size reached |
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(fix lseek()/off_t, mdextend()/RELSEG_SIZE) |
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* Threaded version of the server or libpq |
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* Allow libpq to cancel query requests |
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* Add REGEX internationalization |
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* Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from ""(?) |
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* Allow variable casts with BETWEEN 'today'::asbtime AND 'today'::abstime |
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* Allow INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... FROM view to work |
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* Allow text, char(), and varchar() overhead to be only 2 bytes, not 4 bytes |
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* Make VACUUM on database not lock pg_class |
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* Make VACUUM ANALYZE only use a readlock |
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* Allow cursors to be DECLAREd/OPENed/CLOSEed outside transactions |
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* Allow variable block sizes(Darren) |
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* System tables are now more update-able from SQL(Jan) |
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* New pg_shadow file, pg_user is now a view of pg_shadow(Jan) |
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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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* Change all references of Postgres to PostgreSQL, including binary names |
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* Add ELOG_TIMESTAMPS to elog()(?) |
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* Change LOCK tablename to LOCK TABLE tablename(?) |
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* Allow max tuple length to be changed(Darren) |
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* Have psql with no database name not connect to username as default(?) |
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* Allow subqueries in target list |
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* Granting permissions to another user looses permissions for the owner |
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PERFORMANCE |
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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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* remove fork()/exec() of backend and make it just fork() |
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* Improve vacuum locking issues |
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* Add base table name to \d index |
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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 optmizer problem with self-table joins |
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* Fix memory exhaustion when using many OR's |
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* Use spin locks only on multi-CPU systems, yield CPU instead |
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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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DOCUMENTATION |
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@ -170,10 +188,44 @@ DOCUMENTATION |
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* added features used in grammer but not in docs, like :: and CAST |
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* update libpq++ and pginterface manual page |
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* Add keyword list to documentation, already in /tools |
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* Add 'man pgsql' to show all manual page names |
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============================================================================= |
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CHANGES IN THE 6.3p1 PATCH |
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ecpg cleanup/fixes, now version 1.1(Michael Meskes) |
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pg_user cleanup(Bruce) |
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large object fix for pg_dump and tclsh(alvin@camberlo.demon.co.uk) |
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LIKE fix for multiple adjacent underscores |
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fix for redefining builtin functions(Thomas) |
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ultrix4 cleanup |
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upgrade to pg_access 0.83 |
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updated CLUSTER manual page |
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multi-byte character set support, see doc/README.mb(Tatsuo) |
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configure --with-pgport fix |
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pg_ident fix |
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big-endian fix for backend communications(Tatsuo) |
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SUBSTR() and substring() fix(Thomas) |
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several jdbc fixes(Peter) |
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libpgtcl improvements, see libptcl/README(Randy Kunkee) |
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Fix for "Datasize = 0" error(Vadim) |
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Prevent \do from wrapping(Bruce) |
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Remove duplicate Russian character set entries |
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Sunos4 cleanup |
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Allow optional TABLE keyword in LOCK and SELECT INTO(Thomas) |
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CREATE SEQUENCE options to allow a negative integer(Thomas) |
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Add "PASSWORD" as an allowed column identifier(Thomas) |
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Add checks for UNION target fields(Bruce) |
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Fix Alpha port(Dwayne Bailey) |
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Fix for text arrays containing quotes(Doug Gibson) |
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Solaris compile fix(Albert Chin-A-Young) |
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Better identify tcl and tk libs and includes(Bruce) |
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CHANGES IN THE 6.3 RELEASE |
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Bruce Momjian
28 years ago