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< h1 > < a name = "section_1" > PostgreSQL TODO List< / a > < / h1 >
< p > Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (< a href = "mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us" > pgman@candle.pha.pa.us< / a > )< br / >
Last updated: Thu Jun 8 11:41:16 EDT 2006
Last updated: Thu Jun 8 12:07:13 EDT 2006
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< p > The most recent version of this document can be viewed at< br / >
< a href = "http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html" > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html< / a > .
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pg_stop_backup() is called or the server is stopped
< p > Doing this will allow administrators to know more easily when
the archive contains all the files needed for point-in-time
recovery. See < a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-04/msg00121.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-04/msg00121.php< / a > .
recovery.
< a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-04/msg00121.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-04/msg00121.php< / a >
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< / li > < li > %Create dump tool for write-ahead logs for use in determining
transaction id for point-in-time recovery
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need to be reindexed to match the new locale.
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< / li > < li > Allow encoding on a per-column basis
< p > Right now only one encoding is allowed per database. For a partial
patch, see < a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-03/msg00932.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-03/msg00932.php< / a > .
< p > Right now only one encoding is allowed per database.
< a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-03/msg00932.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-03/msg00932.php< / a >
< / p >
< / li > < li > Support multiple simultaneous character sets, per SQL92
< / li > < li > Improve UTF8 combined character handling?
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The difficult of this features is allowing RESET ALL to not affect
changes made by the interface driver for its internal use. One idea
is for this to be a protocol-only feature. Another approach is to
notify the protocol when a RESET CONNECTION command is used. See
notify the protocol when a RESET CONNECTION command is used.
< a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-04/msg00192.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-04/msg00192.php< / a >
for a partial implementation.
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< / li > < li > Add GUC to issue notice about statements that use unjoined tables
< / li > < li > Allow EXPLAIN to identify tables that were skipped because of
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< li > %Have ALTER TABLE RENAME rename SERIAL sequence names
< / li > < li > Add ALTER DOMAIN to modify the underlying data type
< / li > < li > %Allow ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... RENAME
< p > See < a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-02/msg00168.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-02/msg00168.php< / a > .
< p > < a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-02/msg00168.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-02/msg00168.php< / a >
< / p >
< / li > < li > %Allow ALTER TABLE to change constraint deferrability and actions
< / li > < li > Add missing object types for ALTER ... SET SCHEMA
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< / li > < li > Add ALTER TABLE tab ADD/DROP INHERITS parent
< p > This allows tables to be added/removed from an inheritance
hierarchy. This is particularly useful for table partitioning.
See < a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-05/msg00988.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-05/msg00988.php< / a > .
< a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-05/msg00988.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-05/msg00988.php< / a >
< / p >
< / li > < li > Have ALTER INDEX update the name of a constraint using that index
< / li > < li > Add ALTER TABLE RENAME CONSTRAINT, update index name also
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< / li > < li > Allow statement-level triggers to access modified rows
< / li > < li > Support triggers on columns
< p > See < a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-07/msg00107.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-07/msg00107.php< / a > .
< p > < a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-07/msg00107.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-07/msg00107.php< / a >
< / p >
< / li > < li > Allow AFTER triggers on system tables
< p > System tables are modified in many places in the backend without going
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< / li > < li > Consider allowing control of upper/lower case folding of unquoted
identifiers
< p > Details at < a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-04/msg00818.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-04/msg00818.php< / a > .
< p > < a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-04/msg00818.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-04/msg00818.php< / a >
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< h1 > < a name = "section_13" > Indexes< / a > < / h1 >
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< / li > < li > Allow the pg_xlog directory location to be specified during initdb
with a symlink back to the /data location
< / li > < li > Allow WAL information to recover corrupted pg_controldata
< p > See partially completed patch and additional work required at
< a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-06/msg00025.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-06/msg00025.php< / a > .
< p > < a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-06/msg00025.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-06/msg00025.php< / a >
< / p >
< / li > < li > Find a way to reduce rotational delay when repeatedly writing
last WAL page
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< p > This involves choosing better pivot points for the quicksort.
< / p >
< / li > < li > Consider GnuTLS if OpenSSL license becomes a problem
< p > See < a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-05/msg00040.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-05/msg00040.php< / a > .
< p > < a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-05/msg00040.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-05/msg00040.php< / a >
< / p >
< / li > < li > Win32
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< / li > < li > Re-enable timezone output on log_line_prefix '%t' when a
shorter timezone string is available
< / li > < li > Fix problem with shared memory on the Win32 Terminal Server
< / li > < li > Improve signal handling,
< a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-06/msg00027.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-06/msg00027.php< / a >
< / li > < li > Improve signal handling
< p > < a href = "http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-06/msg00027.php" > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-06/msg00027.php< / a >
< / p >
< / li > < li > Add long file support for binary pg_dump output
< p > While Win32 supports 64-bit files, the MinGW API does not,
meaning we have to build an fseeko replacement on top of the
Bruce Momjian
20 years ago