TODO list for PostgreSQL
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-Last updated: Fri Jul 20 12:07:25 EDT 2001
+Last updated: Fri Jul 20 12:14:48 EDT 2001
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
* Allow autocommit so always in a transaction block
* Overhaul bufmgr/lockmgr/transaction manager
-* Allow nested transactions (Vadim)
+* Allow nested transactions / savepoints (Vadim)
* Handle transaction rollover (Tom) [transactions]
EXOTIC FEATURES
* Allow SQL92 schemas [schema]
* Allow queries across multiple databases
* Add pre-parsing phase that converts non-ANSI features to supported features
+* Allow plug-in modules to emulate features from other databases
* SQL*Net listener that makes PostgreSQL appear as an Oracle database
to clients
* Allow Java server-side programming [java]
connection pooling
* Make blind writes go through the file descriptor cache
* Allow logging of query durations
-* Add hash-based aggregates
+* Add hash for evaluating GROUP BY aggregates
* Read pg_hba.conf only on postmaster startup or SIGHUP (Bruce)
* Create spinlock sleepers queue so everyone doesn't wake up at once
* Make elog(LOG) in WAL its own output type, distinct from DEBUG
* Rename some /contrib modules from pg* to pg_*
* Move some things from /contrib into main tree, like soundex
-* Allow plug-in modules to emulate features from other databases
* Remove warnings created by -Wcast-align
* Move platform-specific ps status display info from ps_status.c to ports
* Allow ps status display to work on Solaris/SVr4-based systems