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TODO list for PostgreSQL |
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Last updated: Fri Dec 18 00:15:58 EST 1998 |
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Last updated: Fri Dec 18 02:30:47 EST 1998 |
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us) |
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* Remove EXTEND? |
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* Can lo_export()/lo_import() read/write anywhere, causing a security problem? |
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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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* Two and three dimensional arrays display improperly, missing {} |
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* GROUP BY in INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM table2 fails |
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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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* UPDATE table SET table.value = 3 fails |
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* User who can create databases can modify pg_database table |
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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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* default char() value not to full length crashes server on some OS's |
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* allow UPDATE using aggregate to affect all rows, not just one |
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* computations in views fail: |
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create view test as select usesysid * usesysid from pg_shadow; |
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* views containing aggregates sometimes fail(Jan) |
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* ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN does not honor DEFAULT, add CONSTRAINT |
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* SELECT DISTINCT i FROM dtest ORDER BY j generates strange output |
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* fix memory leak in aborted transactions |
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* array index references without table name cause problems |
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* aggregates on array indexes crash backend |
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@ -93,14 +90,11 @@ ENHANCEMENTS |
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* add temporary tables |
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* add sql3 recursive unions |
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* add the concept of dataspaces |
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* add DECIMAL, NUMERIC, DOUBLE PRECISION, BIT, BIT VARYING |
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* add BIT, BIT VARYING |
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* NCHAR (as distinguished from ordinary varchar), |
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* DOMAIN capability |
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* Allow compression of large fields or a compressed field type |
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* Fix the rules system(Jan,Soo-Ho) |
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* add CONSTRAINT |
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* Full set of text operations and functions |
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* word searches, concat,max() on text, char |
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* Large objects |
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* Fix large object mapping scheme, own reltype(Peter) |
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* Allow large text type to use large objects(Peter) |
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(fix lseek()/off_t, mdextend()/RELSEG_SIZE) |
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* Add REGEX internationalization |
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* allow row re-use without vacuum, maybe?(Vadim) |
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* Add word index for text fields, maybe with trigrams, i.e.: |
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* ' (cat | dog) & ! fox ' meaning text has cat aor dog, but not fox |
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* Populate backend status area and write program to dump status data |
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* Add ALTER TABLE DROP/ALTER COLUMN feature |
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* Allow INSERT INTO ... SELECT to convert column types |
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* Add syslog functionality(Marc) |
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* Add STDDEV/VARIANCE() function for standard deviation computation/variance |
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* add UNIQUE capability to non-btree indexes |
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* make NULL's come out at the beginning or end depending on the ORDER BY direction |
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* change the library/backend interface to use network byte order |
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* Restore unused oid's on backend exit if no one else has gotten oids |
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* remove non-standard types from the system, and make them loadable |
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* have UPDATE/DELETE clean out indexes |
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* allow WHERE restriction on ctid |
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* allow pg_descriptions when creating types, tables, columns, and functions |
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* Fix compile and security of Kerberos/GSSAPI code |
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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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* Make VACUUM on database not lock pg_class |
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* Make VACUUM ANALYZE only use a readlock |
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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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* multi-verion concurrency control(Vadim) |
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* improve reporting of syntax errors by showing location of error in query |
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* allow chaining of pages to allow >8k tuples |
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* no min/max for oid type |
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* remove un-needed conversion functions |
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* remove un-needed conversion functions where appropriate |
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* redesign the function call interface to handle NULLs better(Jan) |
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* permissions on indexes - prevent them? |
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* allow multiple generic operators in expressions without the use of parentheses |
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* Update usermanual source(many) |
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* added features used in grammer but not in docs, like :: and CAST |
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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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* Add use of 'const' for varibles in source tree |
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CHANGES IN THE 6.4.1 RELEASE |
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Add pg_dump -N flag to force double quotes around identifiers. This is |
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the default |
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the default(Thomas) |
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Fix for NOT in where clause causing crash(Bruce) |
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EXPLAIN VERBOSE coredump fix(Vadim) |
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Fix shared-library problems on Linux |
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Fix test for table existance to allow mixed-case and whitespace in |
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the table name |
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the table name(Thomas) |
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Fix a couple of pg_dump bugs |
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Fix for creating tables with constraints when table name is mixed-case(Billy) |
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Configure matches template/.similar entries better(Tom) |
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Change builtin function names from SPI_* to spi_* |
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OR WHERE clause fix(Vadim) |
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Fixes for mixed-case table names(Billy) |
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contrib/linux/postgres.init.csh/sh fix |
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contrib/linux/postgres.init.csh/sh fix(Thomas) |
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libpq memory overrun fix |
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SunOS fixes(Tom) |
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Change exp() behavior to generate error on underflow |
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Change exp() behavior to generate error on underflow(Thomas) |
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pg_dump fixes for memory leak, inheritance constraints, layout change |
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update pgaccess to 0.93 |
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Fix prototype for 64-bit platforms |
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@ -262,7 +246,7 @@ Fix for lo_import() crash(Bruce) |
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Better search for install program(Tom) |
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Timezone fixes(Tom) |
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HPUX fixes(Tom) |
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Use implicit type coersion for matching DEFAULT values |
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Use implicit type coersion for matching DEFAULT values(Thomas) |
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Add routines to help with single-byte (internal) character type(Thomas) |
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Compilation of libpq for Win32 fixes(Magnus) |
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Upgrade to PyGreSQL 2.2(D'Arcy) |
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Bruce Momjian
27 years ago