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<h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>
<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:bruce@momjian.us">bruce@momjian.us</a>)<br/>
-Last updated: Wed Aug 15 11:36:16 EDT 2007
+Last updated: Wed Aug 15 11:48:07 EDT 2007
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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>.
accessed bitmaps would have to be stored in shared memory. One 8k
page of bitmaps could track 512MB of heap pages.
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+<p> A third idea would be for a heap scan to check if all rows are visible
+ and if so set a per-table flag which can be checked by index scans.
+ Any change to the table would have to clear the flag. To detect
+ changes during the heap scan a counter could be set at the start and
+ checked at the end --- if it is the same, the table has not been
+ modified --- any table change would increment the counter.
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</li><li>Consider automatic caching of statements at various levels:
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<li>Parsed query tree