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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
-Last updated: Wed Nov 10 22:59:04 EST 2004
+Last updated: Wed Nov 10 23:36:48 EST 2004
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* Prevent INET cast to CIDR if the unmasked bits are not zero, or
zero the bits
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* ARRAYS
o Allow NULLs in arrays
o Allow MIN()/MAX() on arrays
* Allow accurate statistics to be collected on indexes with more than
one column or expression indexes, perhaps using per-index statistics
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* Add fillfactor to control reserved free space during index creation
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Commands
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To do this, determine the ideal cluster index for each system
table and set the cluster setting during initdb.
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* COPY
o Allow COPY to report error lines and continue
o Have COPY return the number of rows loaded/unloaded (?)
o Allow COPY to optionally include column headings in the first line
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* CURSOR
o Allow UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF cursor
Because WITH HOLD cursors exist outside transactions, this allows
them to be listed so they can be closed.
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* INSERT
o Allow INSERT/UPDATE of the system-generated oid value for a row
o Allow INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..)
One complication is how to handle rules that run as part of
the insert.
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* SHOW/SET
o Add SET PERFORMANCE_TIPS option to suggest INDEX, VACUUM, VACUUM
ANALYZE, and CLUSTER
This requires a checking function to be called after the server
configuration file is read.
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* SERVER-SIDE LANGUAGES
o Allow PL/PgSQL's RAISE function to take expressions (?)
o Add CSV output format
-* ECPG (?)
+* ECPG
o Docs
Document differences between ecpg and the SQL standard and
* Remove Win32 rename/unlink looping if unnecessary
* Remove kerberos4 from source tree?
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* Win32
o Remove per-backend parameter file and move into shared memory
o Remove configure.in check for link failure when cause is found
o Re-enable timezone output on log_line_prefix '%t' when a
shorter timezone string is available
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* Wire Protocol Changes
o Allow dynamic character set handling
o Add decoded type, length, precision