Update for 6.5.3, including new INSTALL file and updated HISTORY.

doc/TODO

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 TODO list for PostgreSQL
 ========================
-Last updated:		Mon Sep  6 23:55:43 EDT 1999
+Last updated:		Sun Oct 10 16:40:40 EDT 1999
 
 Current maintainer:	Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us)
 
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ the PostgreSQL web site, http://www.PostgreSQL.org.
 
 A dash(-) marks changes that will appear in the next release.
 
+Names in brackets "[]" indicate more detailed information is available in
+the directory pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/ under that name.
+
 
 RELIABILITY
 -----------
@@ -17,7 +20,7 @@ RESOURCES
 
 * Elog() does not free all its memory(Jan)
 * spinlock stuck problem when elog(FATAL) and elog(ERROR) inside bufmgr
-* Recover or force failure when disk space is exhausted
+* -Recover or force failure when disk space is exhausted(Hiroshi)
 
 PARSER
 
@@ -26,29 +29,38 @@ PARSER
 * SELECT pg_class FROM pg_class generates strange error
 * Alter TABLE ADD COLUMN does not honor DEFAULT, add CONSTRAINT
 * Do not allow bpchar column creation without length
-* Select a[1] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[1]
-* -Array index references without table name cause problems
-* Update table SET table.value = 3 fails
+* -Select a[1] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[1](Tom)
+* -Array index references without table name cause problems [array](Tom)
+* Update table SET table.value = 3 fails(SQL standard says this is OK)
 * Creating index of TIMESTAMP & RELTIME fails, or rename to DATETIME(Thomas)
 * SELECT foo UNION SELECT foo is incorrectly simplified to SELECT foo
-* -INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP BY groups by target columns not source columns
-* -CREATE TABLE test (a char(5) DEFAULT text '', b int4) fails on INSERT
+* -INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP BY groups by target columns not source columns(Tom)
+* -CREATE TABLE test (a char(5) DEFAULT text '', b int4) fails on INSERT(Tom)
 * UNION with LIMIT fails
 * Unique index on base column not honored on inserts from inherited table
   INSERT INTO inherit_table (unique_index_col) VALUES (dup) should fail
+  [inherit] 
 * CREATE TABLE x AS SELECT 1 UNION SELECT 2 fails
 * CREATE TABLE test(col char(2) DEFAULT user) fails in length restriction
+* mismatched types in CREATE TABLE ... DEFAULT causes problems [default]
 * SELECT ... UNION ... ORDER BY fails when sort expr not in result list
 * Be smarter about promoting types when UNION merges different data types
 * SELECT ... UNION ... GROUP BY fails if column types disagree
 * redesign INSERT ... SELECT to have two levels of target list
 * -select * from pg_class where oid in (0,-1)
 * have INTERSECT/EXCEPT prevent duplicates unless ALL is specified
+* prevent primary key of nine columns [primary]
+* SELECT COUNT('asdf') FROM pg_class WHERE oid=12 crashes
+* SELECT DISTINCT ON col1 col1 col2 FROM tab1 is broken [distinct]
+* -When using aggregates + GROUP BY, no rows in should yield no rows out(Tom)
+* -Allow HAVING to use comparisons that have no aggregates(Tom)
 
 VIEWS
 
 * Views containing aggregates sometimes fail(Jan)
 * Views with spaces in view name fail when referenced
+* Creating view and inheriting the view causes view* to show
+  duplicates(inherit) 
 
 MISC
 
@@ -56,27 +68,30 @@ MISC
 * Plpgsql does not handle quoted mixed-case identifiers
 * Fix btree to give a useful elog when key > 1/2 (page - overhead)
 * pg_dump should preserve primary key information
+* plpgsql regression tests fail on BSD/OS
+* database names with spaces fail
 
 ENHANCEMENTS
 ------------
 
 URGENT
 
-* Add referential integrity(Jan?)
-* Add OUTER joins, left and right(Thomas, Bruce)
+* Add referential integrity(Jan?)[primary]
+* Add OUTER joins, left and right[outer](Thomas, Bruce)
 * Allow long tuples by chaining or auto-storing outside db (chaining,large objs)
 * Eliminate limits on query length
-* Fix memory leak for expressions?, aggregates?(Tom?)
+* Fix memory leak for expressions[memory](Tom?) 
+* -Fix memory leak for aggregates(Tom)
 
 ADMIN
 
 * Better interface for adding to pg_group
 * More access control over who can create tables and access the database
-* Add syslog functionality
+* Test syslog functionality
 * Allow elog() to return error codes, not just messages
 * Allow international error message support and add error codes
-* Generate postmaster pid file and remove flock/fcntl lock code
-* Add ability to specifiy location of lock/socket files
+* Generate postmaster pid file and remove flock/fcntl lock code [flock]
+* Add ability to specifiy location of lock/socket files [flock]
 
 TYPES
 
@@ -99,11 +114,14 @@ TYPES
 * Add support for & operator
 * Allow LOCALE on a per-column basis, default to ASCII
 * Allow array on int8[]
+* Allow nulls in arrays
+* Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
 * Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type
 * Declare typein/out functions in pg_proc with a special "C string" data type
 * Add non-large-object binary field
-* Add index on NUMERIC/DECIMAL type
+* -Add index on NUMERIC/DECIMAL type(Jan)
 * Make Absolutetime/Relativetime int4 because time_t can be int8 on some ports
+* Functions returning sets don't really work right[function]
 
 VIEWS
 
@@ -116,7 +134,7 @@ INDEXES
 * Allow CREATE INDEX zman_index ON test (date_trunc( 'day', zman ) datetime_ops)
   fails index can't store constant parameters
 * Allow creation of functional indexes to use default types
-* Permissions on indexes - prevent them?
+* Permissions on indexes, prevent them?
 * Allow SQL function indexes
 * Add FILLFACTOR to index creation
 * Allow indexing of LIKE with localle character sets
@@ -124,20 +142,21 @@ INDEXES
 
 COMMANDS
 
-* ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN to inherited table put column in wrong place
+* ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN to inherited table put column in wrong place [inherit]
 * Add ALTER TABLE DROP/ALTER COLUMN feature
-* Allow CLUSTER on all tables at once, and improve CLUSTER
-* Generate error on CREATE OPERATOR of ~~, ~ and and ~*
+* Allow CLUSTER on all tables at once, and improve CLUSTER, loses NOT
+	NULL specification on table [cluster]
 * Add SIMILAR TO to allow character classes, 'pg_[a-c]%'
 * Auto-destroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL(Ryan)
 * Allow LOCK TABLE tab1, tab2, tab3 so all tables locked in unison
 * Allow INSERT/UPDATE of system-generated oid value for a row
-* Allow ESCAPE '\' at the end of LIKE for ANSI compliance
+* Allow ESCAPE '\' at the end of LIKE for ANSI compliance [like]
 * Rewrite the LIKE handling by rewriting the user string with the 
-  supplied ESCAPE
-* Move LIKE index optimization handling to the optimizer
+  supplied ESCAPE [like]
+* -Move LIKE index optimization handling to the optimizer(Tom)
 * Allow RULE recompilation
 * Support UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT in sub-selects
+* Allow DELETE and UPDATE to use inheritance using tablename*
   
 CLIENTS
 
@@ -147,8 +166,7 @@ CLIENTS
 * Update reltuples from COPY command
 * Allow psql \copy to allow delimiters
 * Add a function to return the last inserted oid, for use in psql scripts
-* Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from ""(?)
-* PQrequestCancel() be able to terminate backend waiting for lock
+* Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from "" [null]
 
 EXOTIC FEATURES
 
@@ -156,6 +174,7 @@ EXOTIC FEATURES
 * Add the concept of dataspaces
 * Add replication of distributed databases
 * Allow queries across multiple databases
+* Allow nested transactions
 
 MISC
 
@@ -164,23 +183,23 @@ MISC
 * Create a background process for each database that runs while
   database is idle, finding superceeded rows, gathering stats and vacuuming
 * Add UNIQUE capability to non-btree indexes
-* Certain indexes will not shrink, i.e. oid indexes with many inserts
+* -Certain indexes will not shrink, i.e. oid indexes with many inserts(Vadim)
 * Restore unused oid's on backend exit if no one else has gotten oids
 * Have UPDATE/DELETE clean out indexes
-* Allow WHERE restriction on ctid
+* -Allow WHERE restriction on ctid(Hiroshi)
 * Allow cursors to be DECLAREd/OPENed/CLOSEed outside transactions
 * Allow PQrequestCancel() to terminate when in waiting-for-lock state
-* Transaction log, so re-do log can be on a separate disk by
-  with after-row images(Vadim)
+* -Transaction log, so re-do log can be on a separate disk by
+  with after-row images(Vadim) [logging](Vadim)
 * Populate backend status area and write program to dump status data
 * Make oid use unsigned int more reliably, pg_atoi()
 * Allow subqueries in target list
-* Put sort files, large objects in their on directory
-* Do autocommit so always in a transaction block
-* Show location of syntax error in query
-* Redesign the function call interface to handle NULLs better(Jan)
-* Document/trigger/rule so changes to pg_shadow create pg_pwd
-* Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc.
+* Put sort files, large objects in their own directory
+* Do autocommit so always in a transaction block(?)
+* Show location of syntax error in query [yacc]
+* Redesign the function call interface to handle NULLs better [function]
+* Document/trigger/rule so changes to pg_shadow recreate pg_pwd [pg_shadow]
+* Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc. [optimizer]
 * Overhaul mdmgr/smgr to fix double unlinking and double opens, cleanup
 * Overhaul bufmgr/lockmgr/transaction manager
 * Add PL/Perl(Mark Hollomon)
@@ -188,14 +207,15 @@ MISC
 * Add configure test to check for C++ need for *.h and namespaces
 * Allow BLCKSZ <= 64k, not <= 32k
 * redesign UNION structures to have separarate target lists
+* Allow multi-level query trees for INSERT INTO ... SELECT
 
 PERFORMANCE
 -----------
 
 FSYNC
 
-* Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance
-* Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries
+* -Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance [fsync](Vadim)
+* -Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries(Vadim)
 
 INDEXES
 
@@ -203,22 +223,23 @@ INDEXES
 * Pull requested data directly from indexes, bypassing heap data
 * Use index to restrict rows returned by multi-key index when used with
   non-consecutive keys or OR clauses, so fewer heap accesses
-* Convert function(constant) into a constant for index use
+* -Convert function(constant) into a constant for index use(Tom)
 * Allow LIMIT ability on single-table queries that have no ORDER BY to use
-  a matching index
-* Improve LIMIT processing by using index to limit rows processed
-* Have optimizer take LIMIT into account when considering index scans
+  a matching index [limit]
+* Improve LIMIT processing by using index to limit rows processed [limit]
+* Have optimizer take LIMIT into account when considering index scans [limit]
 * Make index creation use psort code, because it is now faster(Vadim)
 * Allow creation of sort temp tables > 1 Gig
 * Create more system table indexes for faster cache lookups
 * fix indexscan() so it does leak memory by not requiring caller to free
 * Improve _bt_binsrch() to handle equal keys better, remove _bt_firsteq()(Tom)
-* Allow SELECT * FROM tab WHERE int2col = 4 use int2col index
-* Allow optimizer to prefer plans that match ORDER BY
+* Allow SELECT * FROM tab WHERE int2col = 4 use int2col index, int8,
+  float4, numeric/decimal too [optimizer]
+* -Allow optimizer to prefer plans that match ORDER BY(Tom)
 
 CACHE
 
-* Cache most recent query plan(s?)
+* Cache most recent query plan(s) [prepare]
 * Shared catalog cache, reduce lseek()'s by caching table size in shared area
 * elog() flushes cache, try invalidating just entries from current xact,
   perhaps using invalidation cache
@@ -227,33 +248,37 @@ CACHE
 MISC
 
 * Allow compression of log and meta data
-* Update pg_statistic table to remove operator column
 * Allow char() not to use variable-sized header to reduce disk size
 * Do async I/O to do better read-ahead of data
-* -Fix memory exhaustion when using many OR's
+* -Fix memory exhaustion when using many OR's [cnfify](Tom)
 * Get faster regex() code from Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.utoronto.ca>
   when it is available
 * Use mmap() rather than SYSV shared memory(?)
-* Process const = const parts of OR clause in separate pass
+* -Process const = const parts of OR clause in separate pass(Tom)
 * Make oid use oidin/oidout not int4in/int4out in pg_type.h
 * Improve Subplan list handling
 * Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
+  [subquery]
 * use fmgr_info()/fmgr_faddr() instead of fmgr() calls in high-traffic
   places, like GROUP BY, UNIQUE, index processing, etc.
 * improve dynamic memory allocation by introducing tuple-context memory
-  allocation
+  allocation [memory]
 * fix memory leak in cache code when non-existant table is referenced
 * In WHERE tab1.x=3 AND tab1.x=tab2.y, add tab2.y=3
-* pass atttypmod through parser in more cases(Bruce)
+* pass atttypmod through parser in more cases [atttypmod]
 * remove duplicate type in/out functions for disk and net
+* Allow persistent backends [persistent]
+* Misc [performance]
 
 SOURCE CODE
 -----------
 * Add use of 'const' for varibles in source tree
-* Fix C optimizer problem where fmgr_ptr calls return different types
-* Add needed includes and removed unneede include files(Bruce)
+* Fix C optimizer problem where fmgr_ptr calls return different types [alpha]
+* -Add needed includes and removed unneeded include files(Bruce)
 * Make configure --enable-debug add -g on compile line
-
+* Does Mariposa source contain any other bug fixes?
+* Remove SET KSQO option if OR processing is improved(Tom)
+* rename 'createuser' to 'pg_createuser', and add 'pg_' to other commands
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