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Bruce Momjian [Mon, 11 Oct 1999 18:05:39 +0000 (18:05 +0000)]
Update again.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 11 Oct 1999 18:03:04 +0000 (18:03 +0000)]
pgeasy update.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:51:27 +0000 (17:51 +0000)]
Update pgeasy.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:48:23 +0000 (17:48 +0000)]
autoconf
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:47:02 +0000 (17:47 +0000)]
Add pginterface into main tree, called pgeasy.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:42:25 +0000 (13:42 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Hiroshi Inoue [Mon, 11 Oct 1999 06:28:29 +0000 (06:28 +0000)]
The 1st step to implement new type of scan,TidScan.
Now WHERE restriction on ctid is allowed though it is
sequentially scanned.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 10 Oct 1999 17:00:26 +0000 (17:00 +0000)]
Improve pg_dump template1 error reports.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 10 Oct 1999 16:53:51 +0000 (16:53 +0000)]
Re-add mention of FAQ's for shared memory/ipc errors.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 10 Oct 1999 14:42:44 +0000 (14:42 +0000)]
Improve pg_dump template1 error message.
Thomas G. Lockhart [Sat, 9 Oct 1999 02:30:02 +0000 (02:30 +0000)]
Remove rogue </book> tag left in from normalizing this chapter in emacs.
Thomas G. Lockhart [Sat, 9 Oct 1999 02:29:15 +0000 (02:29 +0000)]
Repair markup for sgmltools writeup.
Fix indenting and make other minor markup improvements.
Thomas G. Lockhart [Sat, 9 Oct 1999 02:26:52 +0000 (02:26 +0000)]
Minor repairs of markup.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 9 Oct 1999 01:32:38 +0000 (01:32 +0000)]
Allow \r as whitespace.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 9 Oct 1999 01:31:36 +0000 (01:31 +0000)]
Update contrib/README.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 9 Oct 1999 01:30:23 +0000 (01:30 +0000)]
Move __alpha to port/alpha.h.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 9 Oct 1999 01:08:51 +0000 (01:08 +0000)]
Remove contrib/int8.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:14:46 +0000 (17:14 +0000)]
Define __alpha__ for __alpha.
Jan Wieck [Fri, 8 Oct 1999 12:00:08 +0000 (12:00 +0000)]
First real FOREIGN KEY constraint trigger functionality.
Implemented now:
FOREIGN KEY ... REFERENCES ... MATCH FULL
FOREIGN KEY ... MATCH FULL ... ON DELETE CASCADE
Jan
Michael Meskes [Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:05:05 +0000 (11:05 +0000)]
*** empty log message ***
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 8 Oct 1999 05:36:58 +0000 (05:36 +0000)]
Update display of debug levels.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 8 Oct 1999 05:27:14 +0000 (05:27 +0000)]
clean up debug flags.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 8 Oct 1999 05:20:48 +0000 (05:20 +0000)]
Comment cleanup.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 8 Oct 1999 05:03:14 +0000 (05:03 +0000)]
Fix for "--" comment and no trailing newline, as seen in Perl.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 8 Oct 1999 04:28:57 +0000 (04:28 +0000)]
Cleanup -is flag to -l for SSL. Another PERL variable name fix. Clean
up debugging options for postmaster and postgres programs. postmaster
-d is no longer optional. Documentation updates.
Tom Lane [Fri, 8 Oct 1999 03:49:55 +0000 (03:49 +0000)]
Remove a no-longer-needed kluge for degenerate aggregate cases,
and update some comments.
Vadim B. Mikheev [Fri, 8 Oct 1999 02:16:22 +0000 (02:16 +0000)]
More startup/shutdown log messages.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 8 Oct 1999 00:15:49 +0000 (00:15 +0000)]
Use $(PERL) variable for perl compile. Now in Makefile.global.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:40:36 +0000 (16:40 +0000)]
Add quotes to password example.
Tom Lane [Thu, 7 Oct 1999 05:48:03 +0000 (05:48 +0000)]
Somehow missed this call to addRangeTableEntry() ...
Tom Lane [Thu, 7 Oct 1999 04:23:24 +0000 (04:23 +0000)]
Fix planner and rewriter to follow SQL semantics for tables that are
mentioned in FROM but not elsewhere in the query: such tables should be
joined over anyway. Aside from being more standards-compliant, this allows
removal of some very ugly hacks for COUNT(*) processing. Also, allow
HAVING clause without aggregate functions, since SQL does. Clean up
CREATE RULE statement-list syntax the same way Bruce just fixed the
main stmtmulti production.
CAUTION: addition of a field to RangeTblEntry nodes breaks stored rules;
you will have to initdb if you have any rules.
Vadim B. Mikheev [Wed, 6 Oct 1999 22:44:25 +0000 (22:44 +0000)]
Small cleanup.
Vadim B. Mikheev [Wed, 6 Oct 1999 21:58:18 +0000 (21:58 +0000)]
XLOG (also known as WAL -:)) Bootstrap/Startup/Shutdown.
First step in cleaning up backend initialization code.
Fix for FATAL: now FATAL is ERROR + exit.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:20:31 +0000 (18:20 +0000)]
More more liszt language code, so remove it from pg_language.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:46:54 +0000 (13:46 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:36:50 +0000 (13:36 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Hiroshi Inoue [Wed, 6 Oct 1999 06:38:04 +0000 (06:38 +0000)]
Improve the treatment of partial(incomplete) blocks of relation files.
This may solve a TODO item
* Recover or force failure when disk space is exhausted
Vadim B. Mikheev [Wed, 6 Oct 1999 03:08:46 +0000 (03:08 +0000)]
Don't set BootstrapProcessingMode in AddNewRelationTuple() before
heap_insert() any more. No reasons to do it, and old comments
said about this.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 6 Oct 1999 03:00:16 +0000 (03:00 +0000)]
CmdTuples() returns an int showing the number of affected tuples after an
insert, update or delete. It will return -1 on error, although I've yet
to an error situation to prove that out!
Vince
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:13:31 +0000 (21:13 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 5 Oct 1999 18:55:45 +0000 (18:55 +0000)]
Update sgmltools install instructions.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 5 Oct 1999 18:14:31 +0000 (18:14 +0000)]
Allow comment-only lines, and ;;; lines too.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:51:53 +0000 (15:51 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 4 Oct 1999 17:05:51 +0000 (17:05 +0000)]
Update sgmltools for docs.
Thomas G. Lockhart [Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:18:54 +0000 (15:18 +0000)]
Expunge "UNIX" in favor of "Unix".
A few other changes, but I forget what :(
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:17:06 +0000 (15:17 +0000)]
As we now use lipq++.H which wasn't around when I first posted the
2 line GetIsNull diffs, we now need this too:
Patrick Welche
Thomas G. Lockhart [Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:16:35 +0000 (15:16 +0000)]
Add mention of transactions and large objects.
Still need the code updated for LO examples.
Tom Lane [Mon, 4 Oct 1999 04:38:46 +0000 (04:38 +0000)]
Less noisy rule display...
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 4 Oct 1999 04:37:46 +0000 (04:37 +0000)]
Fix typo in sgml source.
Tom Lane [Mon, 4 Oct 1999 04:37:23 +0000 (04:37 +0000)]
Make the rule deparser a little less quote-happy, so that
display of default expressions isn't quite so ugly.
Tom Lane [Mon, 4 Oct 1999 02:12:26 +0000 (02:12 +0000)]
Oops, DEFAULT processing wasn't doing type compatibility checking
quite the same way that transformInsertStatement does, so that an expression
could be accepted by CREATE TABLE and then fail when used. Also, put back
check that CONSTRAINT expressions must yield boolean...
Tom Lane [Sun, 3 Oct 1999 23:55:40 +0000 (23:55 +0000)]
Reimplement parsing and storage of default expressions and constraint
expressions in CREATE TABLE. There is no longer an emasculated expression
syntax for these things; it's full a_expr for constraints, and b_expr
for defaults (unfortunately the fact that NOT NULL is a part of the
column constraint syntax causes a shift/reduce conflict if you try a_expr.
Oh well --- at least parenthesized boolean expressions work now). Also,
stored expression for a column default is not pre-coerced to the column
type; we rely on transformInsertStatement to do that when the default is
actually used. This means "f1 datetime default 'now'" behaves the way
people usually expect it to.
BTW, all the support code is now there to implement ALTER TABLE ADD
CONSTRAINT and ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN with a default value. I didn't
actually teach ALTER TABLE to call it, but it wouldn't be much work.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:24:03 +0000 (18:24 +0000)]
autoconf
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:05:04 +0000 (18:05 +0000)]
I hope this is what you had in mind:
--enable-debug adds -g (unconditionally)
--disable-debug removes -g (if it was already in there somehow)
(giving neither does nothing)
Since none of the templates default CFLAGS with a -g you're not likely
to
end up with two -g flags. Not that they'd hurt though.
It doesn't do anything about C++.
Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 3 Oct 1999 17:22:21 +0000 (17:22 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 3 Oct 1999 17:21:46 +0000 (17:21 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Tom Lane [Sat, 2 Oct 1999 23:29:19 +0000 (23:29 +0000)]
Teach parse_coerce about non-cachable functions (actually,
make it call eval_const_expressions() so that it doesn't have to know).
Tom Lane [Sat, 2 Oct 1999 21:33:33 +0000 (21:33 +0000)]
Allow CREATE FUNCTION's WITH clause to be used for all language types,
not just C, so that ISCACHABLE attribute can be specified for user-defined
functions. Get rid of ParamString node type, which wasn't actually being
generated by gram.y anymore, even though define.c thought that was what
it was getting. Clean up minor bug in dfmgr.c (premature heap_close).
Tom Lane [Sat, 2 Oct 1999 21:27:49 +0000 (21:27 +0000)]
Document formerly-undocumented WITH clause of CREATE FUNCTION.
Tom Lane [Sat, 2 Oct 1999 17:45:31 +0000 (17:45 +0000)]
Replace float.c's #ifdef finite check with a proper autoconf check, so it
works if finite() is a function. Patch from Christof Petig.
Tom Lane [Sat, 2 Oct 1999 04:42:04 +0000 (04:42 +0000)]
Stick finger into a couple more holes in the leaky dike of
modifyAggrefQual. This routine really, really needs to be retired, but
until we have subselects in FROM there's no chance of doing the job right.
In the meantime try to respond to unhandlable cases with elog rather than
coredump.
Tom Lane [Sat, 2 Oct 1999 04:37:52 +0000 (04:37 +0000)]
Fix make_clause and make_opclause to record valid type info
in the Expr nodes they produce. This fixes a few cases of errors like
'typeidTypeRelid: Invalid type - oid = 0' caused by calling parser-related
routines on expression trees that have already been processed by planner-
related routines.
Tom Lane [Sat, 2 Oct 1999 01:08:05 +0000 (01:08 +0000)]
Revise rule-printing routines to use expandable StringInfo buffers, so that
they have no hardwired limit on the length of a rule's text. Fix a couple
of minor bugs in passing --- deparsed UPDATE queries didn't have quotes
around relation name, and quotes and backslashes in constant values weren't
backslash-quoted.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:46:39 +0000 (15:46 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Thomas G. Lockhart [Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:26:29 +0000 (15:26 +0000)]
Refer to "name", rather than "table" as the replaceable parameter.
Seems to read better this way...
Thomas G. Lockhart [Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:24:46 +0000 (15:24 +0000)]
Make a mention of the new TRUNCATE command.
Thomas G. Lockhart [Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:24:09 +0000 (15:24 +0000)]
Make TABLE an optional keyword, a la LOCK TABLE (gram.y fixes not yet
committed, but will be within a week or two).
Actually include the reference page into the docs...
Thomas G. Lockhart [Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:21:08 +0000 (15:21 +0000)]
Add keywords from Jan's recent RI features.
Thomas G. Lockhart [Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:20:06 +0000 (15:20 +0000)]
Remove xref's to reference pages since they are not available in
the Programmer's Guide.
Tom Lane [Fri, 1 Oct 1999 04:08:24 +0000 (04:08 +0000)]
Clean up rewriter routines to use expression_tree_walker and
expression_tree_mutator rather than ad-hoc tree walking code. This shortens
the code materially and fixes a fair number of sins of omission. Also,
change modifyAggrefQual to *not* recurse into subselects, since its mission
is satisfied if it removes aggregate functions from the top level of a
WHERE clause. This cures problems with queries of the form SELECT ...
WHERE x IN (SELECT ... HAVING something-using-an-aggregate), which would
formerly get mucked up by modifyAggrefQual. The routine is still
fundamentally broken, of course, but I don't think there's any way to get
rid of it before we implement subselects in FROM ...
Jan Wieck [Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:28:34 +0000 (15:28 +0000)]
Fixed opr_sanity regression test to ignore the new
RI_FKey_... constrint triggers when looking for illegal
pg_proc entries.
Jan
Jan Wieck [Thu, 30 Sep 1999 14:54:24 +0000 (14:54 +0000)]
Added utils/adt/ri_triggers with empty shells for the
FOREIGN KEY triggers.
Added pg_proc entries for all the new functions.
Jan
Jan Wieck [Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:31:47 +0000 (10:31 +0000)]
Removed (useless) pg_proc_prosrc_index
Jan
Tom Lane [Thu, 30 Sep 1999 02:45:17 +0000 (02:45 +0000)]
Reverse out getopt patch --- turns out it doesn't help on my
platform, and there are at least some people it's not broken for. So undo
change until we can discuss a more portable solution.
Tom Lane [Thu, 30 Sep 1999 02:17:23 +0000 (02:17 +0000)]
Un-break optarg() call --- some peoples' optarg libraries
don't like extraneous colons in the option list...
Tom Lane [Thu, 30 Sep 1999 01:12:36 +0000 (01:12 +0000)]
Hmm, guess I forgot to commit this file the other day ...
just some cosmetic changes now, Vadim already fixed the heap_xxx calls.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:53:56 +0000 (21:53 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:42:11 +0000 (21:42 +0000)]
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<H1><A NAME="section-1">TODO list for PostgreSQL</A></H1>
Last updated: Tue Sep 28 00:34:21 EDT 1999
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<A HREF="mailto:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us">maillist@candle.pha.pa.us</A>)
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The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<BR>
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A dash(-) marks changes that will appear in the next release.
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Names in brackets "[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/"></A>]" indicate more detailed information is available in<BR>
the directory pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/ under that name.
<H2><A NAME="section-1.1">RELIABILITY</A></H2>
<P>
<STRONG>RESOURCES</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Elog() does not free all its memory(Jan)
<LI> spinlock stuck problem when elog(FATAL) and elog(ERROR) inside bufmgr
<LI> Recover or force failure when disk space is exhausted
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>PARSER</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Disallow inherited columns with the same name as new columns
<LI> INSERT INTO ... SELECT with AS columns matching result columns problem
<LI> SELECT pg<U>class FROM pg</U>class generates strange error
<LI> Alter TABLE ADD COLUMN does not honor DEFAULT, add CONSTRAINT
<LI> Do not allow bpchar column creation without length
<LI> -Select a[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/1">1</A>] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/1">1</A>]
<LI> -Array index references without table name cause problems [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/array">array</A>]
<LI> Update table SET table.value = 3 fails(SQL standard says this is OK)
<LI> Creating index of TIMESTAMP & RELTIME fails, or rename to DATETIME(Thomas)
<LI> SELECT foo UNION SELECT foo is incorrectly simplified to SELECT foo
<LI> -INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP BY groups by target columns not source columns
<LI> -CREATE TABLE test (a char(5) DEFAULT text '', b int4) fails on INSERT
<LI> UNION with LIMIT fails
<LI> Unique index on base column not honored on inserts from inherited table
INSERT INTO inherit_table (unique<U>index</U>col) VALUES (dup) should fail
[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/inherit">inherit</A>]
<LI> CREATE TABLE x AS SELECT 1 UNION SELECT 2 fails
<LI> CREATE TABLE test(col char(2) DEFAULT user) fails in length restriction
<LI> mismatched types in CREATE TABLE ... DEFAULT causes problems [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/default">default</A>]
<LI> SELECT ... UNION ... ORDER BY fails when sort expr not in result list
<LI> Be smarter about promoting types when UNION merges different data types
<LI> SELECT ... UNION ... GROUP BY fails if column types disagree
<LI> redesign INSERT ... SELECT to have two levels of target list
<LI> -select * from pg_class where oid in (0,-1)
<LI> have INTERSECT/EXCEPT prevent duplicates unless ALL is specified
<LI> prevent primary key of nine columns [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/primary">primary</A>]
<LI> SELECT COUNT('asdf') FROM pg_class WHERE oid=12 crashes
<LI> SELECT DISTINCT ON col1 col1 col2 FROM tab1 is broken [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/distinct">distinct</A>]
<LI> -When using aggregates + GROUP BY, no rows in should yield no rows out
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>VIEWS</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Views containing aggregates sometimes fail(Jan)
<LI> Views with spaces in view name fail when referenced
<LI> Creating view and inheriting the view causes view* to show
duplicates(inherit)
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>MISC</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> User who can create databases can modify pg_database table
<LI> Plpgsql does not handle quoted mixed-case identifiers
<LI> Fix btree to give a useful elog when key > 1/2 (page - overhead)
<LI> pg_dump should preserve primary key information
<LI> plpgsql regression tests fail on BSD/OS
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="section-1.2">ENHANCEMENTS</A></H2>
<P>
<STRONG>URGENT</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Add referential integrity(Jan?)[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/primary">primary</A>]
<LI> Add OUTER joins, left and right[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/outer">outer</A>](Thomas, Bruce)
<LI> Allow long tuples by chaining or auto-storing outside db (chaining,large objs)
<LI> Eliminate limits on query length
<LI> Fix memory leak for expressions?[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/memory">memory</A>](Tom?)
<LI> -Fix memory leak for aggregates?
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>ADMIN</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Better interface for adding to pg_group
<LI> More access control over who can create tables and access the database
<LI> Test syslog functionality
<LI> Allow elog() to return error codes, not just messages
<LI> Allow international error message support and add error codes
<LI> Generate postmaster pid file and remove flock/fcntl lock code [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/flock">flock</A>]
<LI> Add ability to specifiy location of lock/socket files [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/flock">flock</A>]
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>TYPES</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Add BIT, BIT VARYING
<LI> Nchar (as distinguished from ordinary varchar),
<LI> Domain capability
<LI> Add STDDEV/VARIANCE() function for standard deviation computation/variance
<LI> Allow compression of large fields or a compressed field type
<LI> Large objects
<UL>
<LI> Fix large object mapping scheme, own typeid or reltype(Peter)
<LI> Allow large text type to use large objects(Peter)
<LI> Not to stuff everything as files in a single directory, hash dirs
<LI> Allow large object vacuuming
<LI> Tables that start with xinv confused to be large objects
</UL>
<LI> Allow pg_descriptions when creating types, tables, columns, and functions
<LI> Add IPv6 capability to INET/CIDR types
<LI> Make a separate SERIAL type?
<LI> Store binary-compatible type information in the system
<LI> Allow user to define char1 column
<LI> Add support for & operator
<LI> Allow LOCALE on a per-column basis, default to ASCII
<LI> Allow array on int8[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/"></A>]
<LI> Allow nulls in arrays
<LI> Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
<LI> Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type
<LI> Declare typein/out functions in pg_proc with a special "C string" data type
<LI> Add non-large-object binary field
<LI> -Add index on NUMERIC/DECIMAL type
<LI> Make Absolutetime/Relativetime int4 because time_t can be int8 on some ports
<LI> Functions returning sets don't really work right[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/function">function</A>]
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>VIEWS</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Allow DISTINCT on views
<LI> Allow views of aggregate columns
<LI> Allow views with subselects
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>INDEXES</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Allow CREATE INDEX zman_index ON test (date_trunc( 'day', zman ) datetime_ops)
fails index can't store constant parameters
<LI> Allow creation of functional indexes to use default types
<LI> Permissions on indexes - prevent them?
<LI> Allow SQL function indexes
<LI> Add FILLFACTOR to index creation
<LI> Allow indexing of LIKE with localle character sets
<LI> Allow indexing of more than eight columns
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>COMMANDS</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN to inherited table put column in wrong place [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/inherit">inherit</A>]
<LI> Add ALTER TABLE DROP/ALTER COLUMN feature
<LI> Allow CLUSTER on all tables at once, and improve CLUSTER, loses NOT
<P>
NULL specification on table [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/cluster">cluster</A>]
<LI> Add SIMILAR TO to allow character classes, 'pg_[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/a-c">a-c</A>]%'
<LI> Auto-destroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL(Ryan)
<LI> Allow LOCK TABLE tab1, tab2, tab3 so all tables locked in unison
<LI> Allow INSERT/UPDATE of system-generated oid value for a row
<LI> Allow ESCAPE '\' at the end of LIKE for ANSI compliance [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/like">like</A>]
<LI> Rewrite the LIKE handling by rewriting the user string with the
supplied ESCAPE [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/like">like</A>]
<LI> -Move LIKE index optimization handling to the optimizer
<LI> Allow RULE recompilation
<LI> Support UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT in sub-selects
<LI> Allow DELETE and UPDATE to use inheritance using tablename*
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>CLIENTS</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Make NULL's come out at the beginning or end depending on the
ORDER BY direction
<LI> Allow flag to control COPY input/output of NULLs
<LI> Update reltuples from COPY command
<LI> Allow psql \copy to allow delimiters
<LI> Add a function to return the last inserted oid, for use in psql scripts
<LI> Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from "" [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/null">null</A>]
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>EXOTIC FEATURES</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Add sql3 recursive unions
<LI> Add the concept of dataspaces
<LI> Add replication of distributed databases
<LI> Allow queries across multiple databases
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>MISC</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Increase identifier length(NAMEDATALEN) if small performance hit
<LI> Allow row re-use without vacuum(Vadim)
<LI> Create a background process for each database that runs while
database is idle, finding superceeded rows, gathering stats and vacuuming
<LI> Add UNIQUE capability to non-btree indexes
<LI> -Certain indexes will not shrink, i.e. oid indexes with many inserts
<LI> Restore unused oid's on backend exit if no one else has gotten oids
<LI> Have UPDATE/DELETE clean out indexes
<LI> Allow WHERE restriction on ctid
<LI> Allow cursors to be DECLAREd/OPENed/CLOSEed outside transactions
<LI> Allow PQrequestCancel() to terminate when in waiting-for-lock state
<LI> -Transaction log, so re-do log can be on a separate disk by
with after-row images(Vadim) [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/logging">logging</A>]
<LI> Populate backend status area and write program to dump status data
<LI> Make oid use unsigned int more reliably, pg_atoi()
<LI> Allow subqueries in target list
<LI> Put sort files, large objects in their own directory
<LI> Do autocommit so always in a transaction block(?)
<LI> Show location of syntax error in query [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/yacc">yacc</A>]
<LI> Redesign the function call interface to handle NULLs better [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/function">function</A>]
<LI> Document/trigger/rule so changes to pg<U>shadow recreate pg</U>pwd [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/pg_shadow">pg_shadow</A>]
<LI> Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc. [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/optimizer">optimizer</A>]
<LI> Overhaul mdmgr/smgr to fix double unlinking and double opens, cleanup
<LI> Overhaul bufmgr/lockmgr/transaction manager
<LI> Add PL/Perl(Mark Hollomon)
<LI> Make postgres user have a password by default
<LI> Add configure test to check for C++ need for *.h and namespaces
<LI> Allow BLCKSZ <= 64k, not <= 32k
<LI> redesign UNION structures to have separarate target lists
<LI> Allow multi-level query trees for INSERT INTO ... SELECT
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="section-1.3">PERFORMANCE</A></H2>
<P>
<STRONG>FSYNC</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> -Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/fsync">fsync</A>]
<LI> -Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>INDEXES</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Use indexes in ORDER BY for restrictive data sets, min(), max()
<LI> Pull requested data directly from indexes, bypassing heap data
<LI> Use index to restrict rows returned by multi-key index when used with
non-consecutive keys or OR clauses, so fewer heap accesses
<LI> -Convert function(constant) into a constant for index use
<LI> Allow LIMIT ability on single-table queries that have no ORDER BY to use
a matching index [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/limit">limit</A>]
<LI> Improve LIMIT processing by using index to limit rows processed [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/limit">limit</A>]
<LI> Have optimizer take LIMIT into account when considering index scans [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/limit">limit</A>]
<LI> Make index creation use psort code, because it is now faster(Vadim)
<LI> Allow creation of sort temp tables > 1 Gig
<LI> Create more system table indexes for faster cache lookups
<LI> fix indexscan() so it does leak memory by not requiring caller to free
<LI> Improve <U>bt</U>binsrch() to handle equal keys better, remove <U>bt</U>firsteq()(Tom)
<LI> Allow SELECT * FROM tab WHERE int2col = 4 use int2col index, int8,
float4, numeric/decimal too [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/optimizer">optimizer</A>]
<LI> -Allow optimizer to prefer plans that match ORDER BY
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>CACHE</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Cache most recent query plan(s) [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/prepare">prepare</A>]
<LI> Shared catalog cache, reduce lseek()'s by caching table size in shared area
<LI> elog() flushes cache, try invalidating just entries from current xact,
perhaps using invalidation cache
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>MISC</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Allow compression of log and meta data
<LI> Allow char() not to use variable-sized header to reduce disk size
<LI> Do async I/O to do better read-ahead of data
<LI> -Fix memory exhaustion when using many OR's [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/cnfify">cnfify</A>]
<LI> Get faster regex() code from Henry Spencer <<A HREF="mailto:henry@zoo.utoronto.ca">henry@zoo.utoronto.ca</A>>
when it is available
<LI> Use mmap() rather than SYSV shared memory(?)
<LI> -Process const = const parts of OR clause in separate pass
<LI> Make oid use oidin/oidout not int4in/int4out in pg_type.h
<LI> Improve Subplan list handling
<LI> Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/subquery">subquery</A>]
<LI> use fmgr_info()/fmgr_faddr() instead of fmgr() calls in high-traffic
places, like GROUP BY, UNIQUE, index processing, etc.
<LI> improve dynamic memory allocation by introducing tuple-context memory
allocation [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/memory">memory</A>]
<LI> fix memory leak in cache code when non-existant table is referenced
<LI> In WHERE tab1.x=3 AND tab1.x=tab2.y, add tab2.y=3
<LI> pass atttypmod through parser in more cases [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/atttypmod">atttypmod</A>]
<LI> remove duplicate type in/out functions for disk and net
<LI> Allow persistent backends [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/persistent">persistent</A>]
<LI> Misc [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/performance">performance</A>]
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="section-1.4">SOURCE CODE</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI> Add use of 'const' for varibles in source tree
<LI> Fix C optimizer problem where fmgr_ptr calls return different types [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/alpha">alpha</A>]
<LI> -Add needed includes and removed unneeded include files(Bruce)
<LI> Make configure --enable-debug add -g on compile line
<LI> Does Mariposa source contain any other bug fixes?
<LI> Remove SET KSQO option if OR processing is improved(Tom)
</UL>
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<H3><A NAME="section-1.4.1">Developers who have claimed items are:</A></H3>
<UL>
<LI> Billy is Billy G. Allie <<A HREF="mailto:Bill.Allie@mug.org">Bill.Allie@mug.org</A>>
<LI> Brook is Brook Milligan <<A HREF="mailto:brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu">brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu</A>>
<LI> Bruce is Bruce Momjian<<A HREF="mailto:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us">maillist@candle.pha.pa.us</A>>
<LI> Bryan is Bryan Henderson<<A HREF="mailto:bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net">bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net</A>>
<LI> D'Arcy is D'Arcy J.M. Cain <<A HREF="mailto:darcy@druid.net">darcy@druid.net</A>>
<LI> David is David Hartwig <<A HREF="mailto:daveh@insightdist.com">daveh@insightdist.com</A>>
<LI> Edmund is Edmund Mergl <<A HREF="mailto:E.Mergl@bawue.de">E.Mergl@bawue.de</A>>
<LI> Goran is Goran Thyni <<A HREF="mailto:goran@kyla.kiruna.se">goran@kyla.kiruna.se</A>>
<LI> Hiroshi is Hiroshi Inoue<<A HREF="mailto:Inoue@tpf.co.jp">Inoue@tpf.co.jp</A>>
<LI> Jan is Jan Wieck <<A HREF="mailto:wieck@sapserv.debis.de">wieck@sapserv.debis.de</A>>
<LI> Marc is Marc Fournier <<A HREF="mailto:scrappy@hub.org">scrappy@hub.org</A>>
<LI> Massimo Dal Zotto <<A HREF="mailto:dz@cs.unitn.it">dz@cs.unitn.it</A>>
<LI> Michael is Michael Meskes <<A HREF="mailto:meskes@postgresql.org">meskes@postgresql.org</A>>
<LI> Oleg is Oleg Bartunov <<A HREF="mailto:oleg@sai.msu.su">oleg@sai.msu.su</A>>
<LI> Peter is Peter T Mount <<A HREF="mailto:peter@retep.org.uk">peter@retep.org.uk</A>>
<LI> Ryan is Ryan Bradetich <<A HREF="mailto:rbrad@hpb50023.boi.hp.com">rbrad@hpb50023.boi.hp.com</A>>
<LI> Stefan Simkovics <<A HREF="mailto:ssimkovi@rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at">ssimkovi@rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at</A>>
<LI> Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <<A HREF="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">t-ishii@sra.co.jp</A>>
<LI> Tom is Tom Lane <<A HREF="mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us">tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</A>>
<LI> Thomas is Thomas Lockhart <<A HREF="mailto:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu">lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu</A>>
<LI> TomH is Tom I Helbekkmo <<A HREF="mailto:tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO">tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO</A>>
<LI> Vadim is "Vadim B. Mikheev" <<A HREF="mailto:vadim@krs.ru">vadim@krs.ru</A>>
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Jan Wieck [Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:13:31 +0000 (21:13 +0000)]
Added nbtree operator class for NUMERIC
Jan
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:16:04 +0000 (18:16 +0000)]
Disable new FROM-clause warning.
Jan Wieck [Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:06:40 +0000 (16:06 +0000)]
This is part #1 for of the DEFERRED CONSTRAINT TRIGGER support.
Implements the CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER and SET CONSTRAINTS commands.
TODO:
Generic builtin trigger procedures
Automatic execution of appropriate CREATE CONSTRAINT... at CREATE TABLE
Support of new trigger type in pg_dump
Swapping of huge # of events to disk
Jan
Thomas G. Lockhart [Wed, 29 Sep 1999 05:22:25 +0000 (05:22 +0000)]
Add a few items to the reserved keyword lists.
Clarify information on implicitly-typed constants.
Thomas G. Lockhart [Wed, 29 Sep 1999 05:21:11 +0000 (05:21 +0000)]
Remove remnant garbage from former man pages.
Thomas G. Lockhart [Wed, 29 Sep 1999 05:20:20 +0000 (05:20 +0000)]
Fix (mis)information about NULLIF() SQL function.
Thanks to Tom Lane for pointing it out.
Thomas G. Lockhart [Wed, 29 Sep 1999 05:18:14 +0000 (05:18 +0000)]
Strip out some cvs log info.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:56:49 +0000 (19:56 +0000)]
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<H1><A NAME="section-1">TODO list for PostgreSQL</A></H1>
Last updated: Tue Sep 28 00:34:21 EDT 1999
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<A HREF="mailto:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us">maillist@candle.pha.pa.us</A>)
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A dash(-) marks changes that will appear in the next release.
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Names in brackets "[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/"></A>]" indicate more detailed information is available in<BR>
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<H2><A NAME="section-1.1">RELIABILITY</A></H2>
<P>
<STRONG>RESOURCES</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Elog() does not free all its memory(Jan)
<LI> spinlock stuck problem when elog(FATAL) and elog(ERROR) inside bufmgr
<LI> Recover or force failure when disk space is exhausted
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>PARSER</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Disallow inherited columns with the same name as new columns
<LI> INSERT INTO ... SELECT with AS columns matching result columns problem
<LI> SELECT pg<U>class FROM pg</U>class generates strange error
<LI> Alter TABLE ADD COLUMN does not honor DEFAULT, add CONSTRAINT
<LI> Do not allow bpchar column creation without length
<LI> -Select a[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/1">1</A>] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/1">1</A>]
<LI> -Array index references without table name cause problems [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/array">array</A>]
<LI> Update table SET table.value = 3 fails(SQL standard says this is OK)
<LI> Creating index of TIMESTAMP & RELTIME fails, or rename to DATETIME(Thomas)
<LI> SELECT foo UNION SELECT foo is incorrectly simplified to SELECT foo
<LI> -INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP BY groups by target columns not source columns
<LI> -CREATE TABLE test (a char(5) DEFAULT text '', b int4) fails on INSERT
<LI> UNION with LIMIT fails
<LI> Unique index on base column not honored on inserts from inherited table
INSERT INTO inherit_table (unique<U>index</U>col) VALUES (dup) should fail
[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/inherit">inherit</A>]
<LI> CREATE TABLE x AS SELECT 1 UNION SELECT 2 fails
<LI> CREATE TABLE test(col char(2) DEFAULT user) fails in length restriction
<LI> mismatched types in CREATE TABLE ... DEFAULT causes problems [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/default">default</A>]
<LI> SELECT ... UNION ... ORDER BY fails when sort expr not in result list
<LI> Be smarter about promoting types when UNION merges different data types
<LI> SELECT ... UNION ... GROUP BY fails if column types disagree
<LI> redesign INSERT ... SELECT to have two levels of target list
<LI> -select * from pg_class where oid in (0,-1)
<LI> have INTERSECT/EXCEPT prevent duplicates unless ALL is specified
<LI> prevent primary key of nine columns [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/primary">primary</A>]
<LI> SELECT COUNT('asdf') FROM pg_class WHERE oid=12 crashes
<LI> SELECT DISTINCT ON col1 col1 col2 FROM tab1 is broken [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/distinct">distinct</A>]
<LI> -When using aggregates + GROUP BY, no rows in should yield no rows out
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>VIEWS</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Views containing aggregates sometimes fail(Jan)
<LI> Views with spaces in view name fail when referenced
<LI> Creating view and inheriting the view causes view* to show
duplicates(inherit)
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>MISC</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> User who can create databases can modify pg_database table
<LI> Plpgsql does not handle quoted mixed-case identifiers
<LI> Fix btree to give a useful elog when key > 1/2 (page - overhead)
<LI> pg_dump should preserve primary key information
<LI> plpgsql regression tests fail on BSD/OS
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="section-1.2">ENHANCEMENTS</A></H2>
<P>
<STRONG>URGENT</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Add referential integrity(Jan?)[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/primary">primary</A>]
<LI> Add OUTER joins, left and right[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/outer">outer</A>](Thomas, Bruce)
<LI> Allow long tuples by chaining or auto-storing outside db (chaining,large objs)
<LI> Eliminate limits on query length
<LI> Fix memory leak for expressions?[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/memory">memory</A>](Tom?)
<LI> -Fix memory leak for aggregates?
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>ADMIN</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Better interface for adding to pg_group
<LI> More access control over who can create tables and access the database
<LI> Test syslog functionality
<LI> Allow elog() to return error codes, not just messages
<LI> Allow international error message support and add error codes
<LI> Generate postmaster pid file and remove flock/fcntl lock code [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/flock">flock</A>]
<LI> Add ability to specifiy location of lock/socket files [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/flock">flock</A>]
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>TYPES</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Add BIT, BIT VARYING
<LI> Nchar (as distinguished from ordinary varchar),
<LI> Domain capability
<LI> Add STDDEV/VARIANCE() function for standard deviation computation/variance
<LI> Allow compression of large fields or a compressed field type
<LI> Large objects
<UL>
<LI> Fix large object mapping scheme, own typeid or reltype(Peter)
<LI> Allow large text type to use large objects(Peter)
<LI> Not to stuff everything as files in a single directory, hash dirs
<LI> Allow large object vacuuming
<LI> Tables that start with xinv confused to be large objects
</UL>
<LI> Allow pg_descriptions when creating types, tables, columns, and functions
<LI> Add IPv6 capability to INET/CIDR types
<LI> Make a separate SERIAL type?
<LI> Store binary-compatible type information in the system
<LI> Allow user to define char1 column
<LI> Add support for & operator
<LI> Allow LOCALE on a per-column basis, default to ASCII
<LI> Allow array on int8[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/"></A>]
<LI> Allow nulls in arrays
<LI> Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
<LI> Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type
<LI> Declare typein/out functions in pg_proc with a special "C string" data type
<LI> Add non-large-object binary field
<LI> Add index on NUMERIC/DECIMAL type
<LI> Make Absolutetime/Relativetime int4 because time_t can be int8 on some ports
<LI> Functions returning sets don't really work right[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/function">function</A>]
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>VIEWS</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Allow DISTINCT on views
<LI> Allow views of aggregate columns
<LI> Allow views with subselects
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>INDEXES</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Allow CREATE INDEX zman_index ON test (date_trunc( 'day', zman ) datetime_ops)
fails index can't store constant parameters
<LI> Allow creation of functional indexes to use default types
<LI> Permissions on indexes - prevent them?
<LI> Allow SQL function indexes
<LI> Add FILLFACTOR to index creation
<LI> Allow indexing of LIKE with localle character sets
<LI> Allow indexing of more than eight columns
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>COMMANDS</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN to inherited table put column in wrong place [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/inherit">inherit</A>]
<LI> Add ALTER TABLE DROP/ALTER COLUMN feature
<LI> Allow CLUSTER on all tables at once, and improve CLUSTER, loses NOT
<P>
NULL specification on table [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/cluster">cluster</A>]
<LI> Add SIMILAR TO to allow character classes, 'pg_[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/a-c">a-c</A>]%'
<LI> Auto-destroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL(Ryan)
<LI> Allow LOCK TABLE tab1, tab2, tab3 so all tables locked in unison
<LI> Allow INSERT/UPDATE of system-generated oid value for a row
<LI> Allow ESCAPE '\' at the end of LIKE for ANSI compliance [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/like">like</A>]
<LI> Rewrite the LIKE handling by rewriting the user string with the
supplied ESCAPE [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/like">like</A>]
<LI> -Move LIKE index optimization handling to the optimizer
<LI> Allow RULE recompilation
<LI> Support UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT in sub-selects
<LI> Allow DELETE and UPDATE to use inheritance using tablename*
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>CLIENTS</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Make NULL's come out at the beginning or end depending on the
ORDER BY direction
<LI> Allow flag to control COPY input/output of NULLs
<LI> Update reltuples from COPY command
<LI> Allow psql \copy to allow delimiters
<LI> Add a function to return the last inserted oid, for use in psql scripts
<LI> Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from "" [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/null">null</A>]
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>EXOTIC FEATURES</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Add sql3 recursive unions
<LI> Add the concept of dataspaces
<LI> Add replication of distributed databases
<LI> Allow queries across multiple databases
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>MISC</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Increase identifier length(NAMEDATALEN) if small performance hit
<LI> Allow row re-use without vacuum(Vadim)
<LI> Create a background process for each database that runs while
database is idle, finding superceeded rows, gathering stats and vacuuming
<LI> Add UNIQUE capability to non-btree indexes
<LI> -Certain indexes will not shrink, i.e. oid indexes with many inserts
<LI> Restore unused oid's on backend exit if no one else has gotten oids
<LI> Have UPDATE/DELETE clean out indexes
<LI> Allow WHERE restriction on ctid
<LI> Allow cursors to be DECLAREd/OPENed/CLOSEed outside transactions
<LI> Allow PQrequestCancel() to terminate when in waiting-for-lock state
<LI> -Transaction log, so re-do log can be on a separate disk by
with after-row images(Vadim) [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/logging">logging</A>]
<LI> Populate backend status area and write program to dump status data
<LI> Make oid use unsigned int more reliably, pg_atoi()
<LI> Allow subqueries in target list
<LI> Put sort files, large objects in their own directory
<LI> Do autocommit so always in a transaction block(?)
<LI> Show location of syntax error in query [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/yacc">yacc</A>]
<LI> Redesign the function call interface to handle NULLs better [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/function">function</A>]
<LI> Document/trigger/rule so changes to pg<U>shadow recreate pg</U>pwd [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/pg_shadow">pg_shadow</A>]
<LI> Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc. [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/optimizer">optimizer</A>]
<LI> Overhaul mdmgr/smgr to fix double unlinking and double opens, cleanup
<LI> Overhaul bufmgr/lockmgr/transaction manager
<LI> Add PL/Perl(Mark Hollomon)
<LI> Make postgres user have a password by default
<LI> Add configure test to check for C++ need for *.h and namespaces
<LI> Allow BLCKSZ <= 64k, not <= 32k
<LI> redesign UNION structures to have separarate target lists
<LI> Allow multi-level query trees for INSERT INTO ... SELECT
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="section-1.3">PERFORMANCE</A></H2>
<P>
<STRONG>FSYNC</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> -Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/fsync">fsync</A>]
<LI> -Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>INDEXES</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Use indexes in ORDER BY for restrictive data sets, min(), max()
<LI> Pull requested data directly from indexes, bypassing heap data
<LI> Use index to restrict rows returned by multi-key index when used with
non-consecutive keys or OR clauses, so fewer heap accesses
<LI> -Convert function(constant) into a constant for index use
<LI> Allow LIMIT ability on single-table queries that have no ORDER BY to use
a matching index [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/limit">limit</A>]
<LI> Improve LIMIT processing by using index to limit rows processed [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/limit">limit</A>]
<LI> Have optimizer take LIMIT into account when considering index scans [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/limit">limit</A>]
<LI> Make index creation use psort code, because it is now faster(Vadim)
<LI> Allow creation of sort temp tables > 1 Gig
<LI> Create more system table indexes for faster cache lookups
<LI> fix indexscan() so it does leak memory by not requiring caller to free
<LI> Improve <U>bt</U>binsrch() to handle equal keys better, remove <U>bt</U>firsteq()(Tom)
<LI> Allow SELECT * FROM tab WHERE int2col = 4 use int2col index, int8,
float4, numeric/decimal too [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/optimizer">optimizer</A>]
<LI> -Allow optimizer to prefer plans that match ORDER BY
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>CACHE</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Cache most recent query plan(s) [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/prepare">prepare</A>]
<LI> Shared catalog cache, reduce lseek()'s by caching table size in shared area
<LI> elog() flushes cache, try invalidating just entries from current xact,
perhaps using invalidation cache
</UL>
<P>
<STRONG>MISC</STRONG>
<UL>
<LI> Allow compression of log and meta data
<LI> Allow char() not to use variable-sized header to reduce disk size
<LI> Do async I/O to do better read-ahead of data
<LI> -Fix memory exhaustion when using many OR's [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/cnfify">cnfify</A>]
<LI> Get faster regex() code from Henry Spencer <<A HREF="mailto:henry@zoo.utoronto.ca">henry@zoo.utoronto.ca</A>>
when it is available
<LI> Use mmap() rather than SYSV shared memory(?)
<LI> -Process const = const parts of OR clause in separate pass
<LI> Make oid use oidin/oidout not int4in/int4out in pg_type.h
<LI> Improve Subplan list handling
<LI> Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
[<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/subquery">subquery</A>]
<LI> use fmgr_info()/fmgr_faddr() instead of fmgr() calls in high-traffic
places, like GROUP BY, UNIQUE, index processing, etc.
<LI> improve dynamic memory allocation by introducing tuple-context memory
allocation [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/memory">memory</A>]
<LI> fix memory leak in cache code when non-existant table is referenced
<LI> In WHERE tab1.x=3 AND tab1.x=tab2.y, add tab2.y=3
<LI> pass atttypmod through parser in more cases [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/atttypmod">atttypmod</A>]
<LI> remove duplicate type in/out functions for disk and net
<LI> Allow persistent backends [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/persistent">persistent</A>]
<LI> Misc [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/performance">performance</A>]
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="section-1.4">SOURCE CODE</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI> Add use of 'const' for varibles in source tree
<LI> Fix C optimizer problem where fmgr_ptr calls return different types [<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/alpha">alpha</A>]
<LI> -Add needed includes and removed unneeded include files(Bruce)
<LI> Make configure --enable-debug add -g on compile line
<LI> Does Mariposa source contain any other bug fixes?
<LI> Remove SET KSQO option if OR processing is improved(Tom)
</UL>
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<H3><A NAME="section-1.4.1">Developers who have claimed items are:</A></H3>
<UL>
<LI> Billy is Billy G. Allie <<A HREF="mailto:Bill.Allie@mug.org">Bill.Allie@mug.org</A>>
<LI> Brook is Brook Milligan <<A HREF="mailto:brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu">brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu</A>>
<LI> Bruce is Bruce Momjian<<A HREF="mailto:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us">maillist@candle.pha.pa.us</A>>
<LI> Bryan is Bryan Henderson<<A HREF="mailto:bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net">bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net</A>>
<LI> D'Arcy is D'Arcy J.M. Cain <<A HREF="mailto:darcy@druid.net">darcy@druid.net</A>>
<LI> David is David Hartwig <<A HREF="mailto:daveh@insightdist.com">daveh@insightdist.com</A>>
<LI> Edmund is Edmund Mergl <<A HREF="mailto:E.Mergl@bawue.de">E.Mergl@bawue.de</A>>
<LI> Goran is Goran Thyni <<A HREF="mailto:goran@kyla.kiruna.se">goran@kyla.kiruna.se</A>>
<LI> Hiroshi is Hiroshi Inoue<<A HREF="mailto:Inoue@tpf.co.jp">Inoue@tpf.co.jp</A>>
<LI> Jan is Jan Wieck <<A HREF="mailto:wieck@sapserv.debis.de">wieck@sapserv.debis.de</A>>
<LI> Marc is Marc Fournier <<A HREF="mailto:scrappy@hub.org">scrappy@hub.org</A>>
<LI> Massimo Dal Zotto <<A HREF="mailto:dz@cs.unitn.it">dz@cs.unitn.it</A>>
<LI> Michael is Michael Meskes <<A HREF="mailto:meskes@postgresql.org">meskes@postgresql.org</A>>
<LI> Oleg is Oleg Bartunov <<A HREF="mailto:oleg@sai.msu.su">oleg@sai.msu.su</A>>
<LI> Peter is Peter T Mount <<A HREF="mailto:peter@retep.org.uk">peter@retep.org.uk</A>>
<LI> Ryan is Ryan Bradetich <<A HREF="mailto:rbrad@hpb50023.boi.hp.com">rbrad@hpb50023.boi.hp.com</A>>
<LI> Stefan Simkovics <<A HREF="mailto:ssimkovi@rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at">ssimkovi@rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at</A>>
<LI> Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <<A HREF="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">t-ishii@sra.co.jp</A>>
<LI> Tom is Tom Lane <<A HREF="mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us">tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</A>>
<LI> Thomas is Thomas Lockhart <<A HREF="mailto:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu">lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu</A>>
<LI> TomH is Tom I Helbekkmo <<A HREF="mailto:tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO">tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO</A>>
<LI> Vadim is "Vadim B. Mikheev" <<A HREF="mailto:vadim@krs.ru">vadim@krs.ru</A>>
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Bruce Momjian [Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:08:29 +0000 (18:08 +0000)]
Add mention of pg_upgrade for release checklist.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:04:18 +0000 (18:04 +0000)]
Fix pg_upgrade so it vacuums all databases.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 28 Sep 1999 17:50:23 +0000 (17:50 +0000)]
Add subquery mention in auto-create table entry.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 28 Sep 1999 17:35:12 +0000 (17:35 +0000)]
Fix for AIX dynaloader from Zeugswetter Andrea
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:02:28 +0000 (16:02 +0000)]
pg_upgrade reminder.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:59:10 +0000 (15:59 +0000)]
Recommend postmaster stop/start for pg_upgrade.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:49:36 +0000 (14:49 +0000)]
More cleanup for | and ^.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:38:02 +0000 (14:38 +0000)]
More cleanup for | and ^.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:31:19 +0000 (14:31 +0000)]
Fix for creation of operator |.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:08:10 +0000 (13:08 +0000)]
Update README.NT
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:59:29 +0000 (12:59 +0000)]
libpq++ cleanup from Vince Vielhaber
Vadim B. Mikheev [Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:41:09 +0000 (11:41 +0000)]
Make tree compilable (+WAL).
Vadim B. Mikheev [Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:27:13 +0000 (11:27 +0000)]
heap_close(rel, AccessShareLock);
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ need in
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 28 Sep 1999 05:09:56 +0000 (05:09 +0000)]
Update FAQ.