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TODO list for PostgreSQL |
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Last updated: Tue Oct 5 17:11:29 EDT 1999 |
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Last updated: Wed Oct 6 09:35:16 EDT 1999 |
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us) |
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@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ RESOURCES |
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* Elog() does not free all its memory(Jan) |
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* spinlock stuck problem when elog(FATAL) and elog(ERROR) inside bufmgr |
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* Recover or force failure when disk space is exhausted |
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* -Recover or force failure when disk space is exhausted(Hiroshi) |
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PARSER |
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@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ PARSER |
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* SELECT pg_class FROM pg_class generates strange error |
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* Alter TABLE ADD COLUMN does not honor DEFAULT, add CONSTRAINT |
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* Do not allow bpchar column creation without length |
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* -Select a[1] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[1] |
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* -Array index references without table name cause problems [array] |
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* -Select a[1] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[1](Tom) |
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* -Array index references without table name cause problems [array](Tom) |
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* Update table SET table.value = 3 fails(SQL standard says this is OK) |
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* Creating index of TIMESTAMP & RELTIME fails, or rename to DATETIME(Thomas) |
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* SELECT foo UNION SELECT foo is incorrectly simplified to SELECT foo |
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* -INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP BY groups by target columns not source columns |
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* -CREATE TABLE test (a char(5) DEFAULT text '', b int4) fails on INSERT |
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* -INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP BY groups by target columns not source columns(Tom) |
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* -CREATE TABLE test (a char(5) DEFAULT text '', b int4) fails on INSERT(Tom) |
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* UNION with LIMIT fails |
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* Unique index on base column not honored on inserts from inherited table |
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INSERT INTO inherit_table (unique_index_col) VALUES (dup) should fail |
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* prevent primary key of nine columns [primary] |
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* SELECT COUNT('asdf') FROM pg_class WHERE oid=12 crashes |
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* SELECT DISTINCT ON col1 col1 col2 FROM tab1 is broken [distinct] |
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* -When using aggregates + GROUP BY, no rows in should yield no rows out |
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* -When using aggregates + GROUP BY, no rows in should yield no rows out(Tom) |
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VIEWS |
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* Add OUTER joins, left and right[outer](Thomas, Bruce) |
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* Allow long tuples by chaining or auto-storing outside db (chaining,large objs) |
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* Eliminate limits on query length |
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* Fix memory leak for expressions?[memory](Tom?) |
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* -Fix memory leak for aggregates? |
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* Fix memory leak for expressions[memory](Tom?) |
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* -Fix memory leak for aggregates(Tom) |
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ADMIN |
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@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ TYPES |
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* Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type |
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* Declare typein/out functions in pg_proc with a special "C string" data type |
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* Add non-large-object binary field |
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* -Add index on NUMERIC/DECIMAL type |
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* -Add index on NUMERIC/DECIMAL type(Jan) |
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* Make Absolutetime/Relativetime int4 because time_t can be int8 on some ports |
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* Functions returning sets don't really work right[function] |
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* Allow CREATE INDEX zman_index ON test (date_trunc( 'day', zman ) datetime_ops) |
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fails index can't store constant parameters |
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* Allow creation of functional indexes to use default types |
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* Permissions on indexes - prevent them? |
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* Permissions on indexes, prevent them? |
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* Allow SQL function indexes |
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* Add FILLFACTOR to index creation |
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* Allow indexing of LIKE with localle character sets |
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* Allow ESCAPE '\' at the end of LIKE for ANSI compliance [like] |
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* Rewrite the LIKE handling by rewriting the user string with the |
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supplied ESCAPE [like] |
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* -Move LIKE index optimization handling to the optimizer |
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* -Move LIKE index optimization handling to the optimizer(Tom) |
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* Allow RULE recompilation |
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* Support UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT in sub-selects |
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* Allow DELETE and UPDATE to use inheritance using tablename* |
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* Create a background process for each database that runs while |
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database is idle, finding superceeded rows, gathering stats and vacuuming |
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* Add UNIQUE capability to non-btree indexes |
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* -Certain indexes will not shrink, i.e. oid indexes with many inserts |
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* -Certain indexes will not shrink, i.e. oid indexes with many inserts(Vadim) |
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* Restore unused oid's on backend exit if no one else has gotten oids |
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* Have UPDATE/DELETE clean out indexes |
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* Allow WHERE restriction on ctid |
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* Allow cursors to be DECLAREd/OPENed/CLOSEed outside transactions |
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* Allow PQrequestCancel() to terminate when in waiting-for-lock state |
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* -Transaction log, so re-do log can be on a separate disk by |
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with after-row images(Vadim) [logging] |
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with after-row images(Vadim) [logging](Vadim) |
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* Populate backend status area and write program to dump status data |
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* Make oid use unsigned int more reliably, pg_atoi() |
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* Allow subqueries in target list |
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@ -213,8 +213,8 @@ PERFORMANCE |
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FSYNC |
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* -Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance [fsync] |
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* -Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries |
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* -Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance [fsync](Vadim) |
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* -Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries(Vadim) |
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INDEXES |
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* Pull requested data directly from indexes, bypassing heap data |
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* Use index to restrict rows returned by multi-key index when used with |
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non-consecutive keys or OR clauses, so fewer heap accesses |
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* -Convert function(constant) into a constant for index use |
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* -Convert function(constant) into a constant for index use(Tom) |
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* Allow LIMIT ability on single-table queries that have no ORDER BY to use |
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a matching index [limit] |
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* Improve LIMIT processing by using index to limit rows processed [limit] |
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* Improve _bt_binsrch() to handle equal keys better, remove _bt_firsteq()(Tom) |
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* Allow SELECT * FROM tab WHERE int2col = 4 use int2col index, int8, |
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float4, numeric/decimal too [optimizer] |
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* -Allow optimizer to prefer plans that match ORDER BY |
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* -Allow optimizer to prefer plans that match ORDER BY(Tom) |
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CACHE |
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* Allow compression of log and meta data |
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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 memory exhaustion when using many OR's [cnfify] |
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* -Fix memory exhaustion when using many OR's [cnfify](Tom) |
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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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* Use mmap() rather than SYSV shared memory(?) |
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* -Process const = const parts of OR clause in separate pass |
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* -Process const = const parts of OR clause in separate pass(Tom) |
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* Make oid use oidin/oidout not int4in/int4out in pg_type.h |
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* Improve Subplan list handling |
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* Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable |
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