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TODO list for PostgreSQL
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========================
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Last updated: Sun Mar 1 17:14:36 EST 1998
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Last updated: Sat Mar 21 00:26:29 EST 1998
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us)
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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Developers who have claimed items are:
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* Kurt is "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@va.pubnix.com>
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* Marc is Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
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* Martin is Martin S. Utesch <utesch@aut.tu-freiberg.de>
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* Michael is Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de>
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* Michael is Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>
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* Oleg is Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
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* Paul is Paul M. Aoki <aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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* Patrick is Patrick van Kleef <pvk@pobox.com>
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@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ RELIABILITY
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* Tables that start with xinv confused to be large objects
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* Two and three dimmensional arrays display improperly, missing {}
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* GROUP BY in INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM table2 fails
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* lo_unlink() crashes server
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* Prevent auto-table reference, like SELECT table.col WHERE col = 3 (?)
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* SELECT * FROM table WHERE int4_column = '1' fails
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* SELECT a[1] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[1]
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* User who can create databases can modify pg_database table
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* optimizer memory exhaustion with many OR's
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* elog() does not free all its memory(Jan)
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* views on subselects fail
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* disallow inherited columns with the same name as new columns
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* recover or force failure when disk space is exhausted
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ENHANCEMENTS
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@ -86,10 +88,10 @@ ENHANCEMENTS
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* Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance
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* More access control over who can create tables and access the database
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* Add full ANSI SQL capabilities
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* Implement HAVING clause
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* Implement HAVING clause(Stephan)
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* add OUTER joins, left and right (Thomas)
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* make VIEWs updateable where possible
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* add INTERSECTS, SUBTRACTS
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* add INTERSECTS, SUBTRACTS(Stephan)
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* add temporary tables(Bruce)
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* add sql3 recursive unions
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* add the concept of dataspaces
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* Large objects
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* Fix large object mapping scheme, own reltype
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* not to stuff everything as files in a single directory
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* Fix large object memory leaks
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* Better interface for adding to pg_group
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* Make MONEY/DECIMAL have a defined precision
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* Add support for tables >2G, or test current version
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* Fix tables >2G, or report error when 2G size reached
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(fix lseek()/off_t, mdextend()/RELSEG_SIZE)
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* Threaded version of the server or libpq
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* Allow libpq to cancel query requests
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* Add REGEX internationalization
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@ -135,7 +139,6 @@ ENHANCEMENTS
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* Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from ""(?)
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* Allow variable casts with BETWEEN 'today'::asbtime AND 'today'::abstime
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* Allow INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... FROM view to work
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* Allow text, char(), and varchar() overhead to be only 2 bytes, not 4 bytes
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* Make VACUUM on database not lock pg_class
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* Make VACUUM ANALYZE only use a readlock
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* Allow cursors to be DECLAREd/OPENed/CLOSEed outside transactions
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* Allow variable block sizes(Darren)
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* System tables are now more update-able from SQL(Jan)
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* New pg_shadow file, pg_user is now a view of pg_shadow(Jan)
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* Allow flag to control COPY input/output of NULLs
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* Allow CLUSTER on all tables at once, and improve CLUSTER
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* Change all references of Postgres to PostgreSQL, including binary names
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* Add ELOG_TIMESTAMPS to elog()(?)
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* Change LOCK tablename to LOCK TABLE tablename(?)
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* Allow max tuple length to be changed(Darren)
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* Have psql with no database name not connect to username as default(?)
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* Allow subqueries in target list
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* Granting permissions to another user looses permissions for the owner
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PERFORMANCE
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* update pg_statistic table to remove operator column
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* make index creation use psort code, because it is now faster(Vadim)
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* remove fork()/exec() of backend and make it just fork()
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* Improve vacuum locking issues
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* Add base table name to \d index
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* Allow char() not to use variable-sized header to reduce disk size
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* Do async I/O to do better read-ahead of data
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* Fix optmizer problem with self-table joins
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* Fix memory exhaustion when using many OR's
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* Use spin locks only on multi-CPU systems, yield CPU instead
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* Get faster regex() code from Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.utoronto.ca>
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when it is available
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DOCUMENTATION
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* added features used in grammer but not in docs, like :: and CAST
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* update libpq++ and pginterface manual page
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* Add keyword list to documentation, already in /tools
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* Add 'man pgsql' to show all manual page names
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=============================================================================
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CHANGES IN THE 6.3p1 PATCH
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ecpg cleanup/fixes, now version 1.1(Michael Meskes)
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pg_user cleanup(Bruce)
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large object fix for pg_dump and tclsh(alvin@camberlo.demon.co.uk)
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LIKE fix for multiple adjacent underscores
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fix for redefining builtin functions(Thomas)
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ultrix4 cleanup
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upgrade to pg_access 0.83
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updated CLUSTER manual page
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multi-byte character set support, see doc/README.mb(Tatsuo)
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configure --with-pgport fix
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pg_ident fix
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big-endian fix for backend communications(Tatsuo)
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SUBSTR() and substring() fix(Thomas)
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several jdbc fixes(Peter)
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libpgtcl improvements, see libptcl/README(Randy Kunkee)
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Fix for "Datasize = 0" error(Vadim)
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Prevent \do from wrapping(Bruce)
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Remove duplicate Russian character set entries
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Sunos4 cleanup
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Allow optional TABLE keyword in LOCK and SELECT INTO(Thomas)
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CREATE SEQUENCE options to allow a negative integer(Thomas)
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Add "PASSWORD" as an allowed column identifier(Thomas)
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Add checks for UNION target fields(Bruce)
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Fix Alpha port(Dwayne Bailey)
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Fix for text arrays containing quotes(Doug Gibson)
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Solaris compile fix(Albert Chin-A-Young)
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Better identify tcl and tk libs and includes(Bruce)
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CHANGES IN THE 6.3 RELEASE
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