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<h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1> |
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<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:bruce@momjian.us">bruce@momjian.us</a>)<br/> |
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Last updated: Mon Oct 23 22:42:19 EDT 2006 |
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Last updated: Tue Nov 14 17:26:31 EST 2006 |
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<p>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<br/> |
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<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html</a>. |
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</li><li>Change NUMERIC to enforce the maximum precision |
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</li><li>Add NUMERIC division operator that doesn't round? |
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<p> Currently NUMERIC _rounds_ the result to the specified precision. |
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<p> Currently NUMERIC <u>rounds</u> the result to the specified precision. |
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This means division can return a result that multiplied by the |
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divisor is greater than the dividend, e.g. this returns a value > 10: |
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require frequent mapping/unmapping. Extending the file also causes |
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mapping problems that might require mapping only individual pages, |
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leading to thousands of mappings. Another problem is that there is no |
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way to _prevent_ I/O to disk from the dirty shared buffers so changes |
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way to <u>prevent</u> I/O to disk from the dirty shared buffers so changes |
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could hit disk before WAL is written. |
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</li><li>Add a script to ask system configuration questions and tune postgresql.conf |
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<li>Allow dynamic character set handling |
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</li><li>Add decoded type, length, precision |
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</li><li>Use compression? |
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</li><li>Update clients to use data types, typmod, <a href="http://schema.table.column">schema.table.column</a>/ names |
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</li><li>Update clients to use data types, typmod, schema.table.column names |
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of result sets using new statement protocol |
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</li></ul> |
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</li></ul> |
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</li><li>Consider allowing control of upper/lower case folding of unquoted |
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identifiers |
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<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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<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg01527.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg01527.php</a> |
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</li></ul> |
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<h1><a name="section_23">Features We Do _Not_ Want</a></h1> |
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<h1><a name="section_23">Features We Do <u>Not</u> Want</a></h1> |
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<ul> |
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<li>All backends running as threads in a single process (not wanted) |
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Bruce Momjian
19 years ago