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TODO list for PostgreSQL
========================
Last updated: Sat Aug 29 17:43:10 EDT 1998
Last updated: Sat Oct 24 00:11:58 EDT 1998
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us)
@ -19,18 +19,13 @@ Developers who have claimed items are:
* Bryan is Bryan Henderson<bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>
* D'Arcy is D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
* Dan is Dan McGuirk <mcguirk@indirect.com>
* Daniel is Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg>
* Darren is Darren King <darrenk@insightdist.com>
* David is David Hartwig <daveh@insightdist.com>
* Edmund is Edmund Mergl <E.Mergl@bawue.de>
* Erich Stamberger <eberger@gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at>
* Gerhard is Gerhard Reithofer <gerhardr@tech-edv.co.at>
* Goran is Goran Thyni <goran@bildbasen.se>
* Henry is Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
* Igor is Igor <igor@sba.miami.edu>
* Jan is Jan Wieck <wieck@sapserv.debis.de>
* Jun is Jun Kuwamura <juk@rccm.co.jp>
* Kurt is "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@va.pubnix.com>
* Maarten is Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl>
* Marc is Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
* Martin is Martin S. Utesch <utesch@aut.tu-freiberg.de>
@ -38,20 +33,17 @@ Developers who have claimed items are:
* Michael is Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>
* Oleg is Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
* Paul is Paul M. Aoki <aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
* Patrick is Patrick van Kleef <pvk@pobox.com>
* Peter is Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
* Phil is Phil Thompson <phil@river-bank.demon.co.uk>
* Raymond is Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se>
* Ryan is Ryan Kirkpatrick <rkirkpat@nag.cs.colorado.edu>
* Soo-Ho Ok <shok@detc.dongeui-tc.ac.kr>
* Stefan Simkovics <ssimkovi@rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at>
* Sven is Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
* Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
* Tom is Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Thomas is Thomas Lockhart <tgl@mythos.jpl.nasa.gov>
* Todd is Todd Brandys is <brandys@eng3.hep.uiuc.edu>
* TomH is Tom I Helbekkmo <tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO>
* Vadim is "Vadim B. Mikheev" <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>
* Vivek is Vivek Khera <khera@kci.kciLink.com>
Additional 6.4 developers include:
---------------------------------
@ -63,13 +55,15 @@ Additional 6.4 developers include:
* Aldrin L. <aldrin@americasnet.com>
* Pascal ANDRE <andre@via.ecp.fr>
* Magnus Hagander <mha@edu.sollentuna.se>
* Robert Bruccoleri <bruc@pluto.njcc.com>
* Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
* Jacek Lasecki <jacek@sound.eti.pg.gda.pl>
RELIABILITY
-----------
* Overhaul mdmgr/smgr to fix double unlinking and double opens, cleanup
* Overhaul bufmgr/lockmgr/transaction manager
* Remove EXTEND?
* -CREATE VIEW requires super-user priviledge
* Can lo_export()/lo_import() read/write anywhere, causing a security problem?
* Tables that start with xinv confused to be large objects
* Two and three dimmensional arrays display improperly, missing {}
@ -78,7 +72,6 @@ RELIABILITY
* SELECT * FROM table WHERE int4_column = '1' fails
* SELECT a[1] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[1]
* UPDATE table SET table.value = 3 fails
* -Make pg_dump preserve inheritance column order, do non-inherits first
* User who can create databases can modify pg_database table
* optimizer memory exhaustion with many OR's
* elog() does not free all its memory(Jan)
@ -89,7 +82,6 @@ RELIABILITY
* allow UPDATE using aggregate to affect all rows, not just one
* computations in views fail:
create view test as select usesysid * usesysid from pg_shadow;
* select upper(usename), count(usesysid) from pg_shadow group by 1 fails
ENHANCEMENTS
------------
@ -99,9 +91,7 @@ ENHANCEMENTS
* Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance
* More access control over who can create tables and access the database
* Add full ANSI SQL capabilities
* -Implement HAVING clause(Stephan)
* add OUTER joins, left and right (Thomas)
* -make VIEWs updateable where possible(use Rules)
* add INTERSECTS, SUBTRACTS(Stephan)
* add temporary tables
* add sql3 recursive unions
@ -111,8 +101,6 @@ ENHANCEMENTS
* DOMAIN capability
* Allow compression of large fields or a compressed field type
* Fix the rules system(Jan,Soo-Ho)
* -robust
* -making INSTEAD rules work
* add CONSTRAINT
* Full set of text operations and functions
* word searches, concat,max() on text, char
@ -126,10 +114,8 @@ ENHANCEMENTS
* Make MONEY/DECIMAL have a defined precision
* Fix tables >2G, or report error when 2G size reached
(fix lseek()/off_t, mdextend()/RELSEG_SIZE)
* -Allow libpq to cancel query requests
* Add REGEX internationalization
* allow row re-use without vacuum, maybe?(Vadim)
* -Remove restriction that ORDER BY field must be in SELECT list(David)
* Add word index for text fields, maybe with trigrams, i.e.:
* ' (cat | dog) & ! fox ' meaning text has cat aor dog, but not fox
* Populate backend status area and write program to dump status data
@ -186,19 +172,29 @@ ENHANCEMENTS
* allow creation of functional indexes to use default types
* put sort files, large objects in their on directory
* CREATE VIEW myview (name) AS SELECT lname FROM wages fails
* do autocommit so always in a transaction block
* add SIMILAR TO to allow character classes, 'pg_[a-c]%'
* allow function isnull(val,'string') to return string if value is null
* multi-verion concurrency control(Vadim)
* improve reporting of syntax errors by showing location of error in query
* allow chaining of pages to allow >8k tuples
* no min/max for oid type
* remove un-needed conversion functions
PERFORMANCE
-----------
* Use indexes in ORDER BY for restrictive data sets, min(), max()
* Allow LIMIT ability on single-table queries that have no ORDER BY or
a matching index
* Pull requested data directly from indexes, bypassing heap data
* Prevent psort() usage when query already using index matching ORDER BY
* Optimizing disjunctive queries
* Fix bushy-plans
* Other optimizer bugs
* Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries
* Cache most recent query plan(s?)
* Shared catalog cache, reduce lseek()'s by caching table size in shared area
* Allow compression of log and meta data
* Add FILLFACTOR to index creation
* -Allow indexes to be used with OR clauses(Bruce)
* update pg_statistic table to remove operator column
* make index creation use psort code, because it is now faster(Vadim)
* remove fork()/exec() of backend and make it just fork()
@ -213,15 +209,15 @@ PERFORMANCE
* use mmap() rather than SYSV shared memory(?)
* use index to restrict rows returned by multi-key index when used with
non-consecutive keys or OR clauses, so fewer heap accesses
* use index with constants on functions
DOCUMENTATION
-------------
* Update usermanual source(many)
* added features used in grammer but not in docs, like :: and CAST
* update libpq++ and pginterface manual page
* Add keyword list to documentation, already in /tools
* Add 'man pgsql' to show all manual page names
* Add use of 'const' for varibles in source tree
=============================================================================
@ -246,12 +242,13 @@ Fix a bug in the oracle compatibility functions btrim() ltrim() and rtrim()
Fix for usernames longer than eight characters(Tom)
Fix for shared invalidation cache overflow(Massimo)
Prevent file descriptor leaks in failed COPY's(Bruce)
Fix problem with username/passwords over 8 characters(Tom)
Enhancements
------------
Upgrade ECPG to 2.0, see src/interfaces/ecpc/ChangeLog(Michael)
Upgrade ecpg and ecpglib,see src/interfaces/ecpc/ChangeLog(Michael)
Show the index used in an explain(Zeugswetter)
Multi-byte awareness of many data data types and functions(Tatsuo)
Multi-byte awareness of many data types and functions, via configure(Tatsuo)
New configure --with-mb option(Tatsuo)
New initdb --pgencoding option(Tatsuo)
New createdb -E multibyte option(Tatsuo)
@ -289,6 +286,8 @@ Pg_hba.conf now has a sameuser option in the database field
Make lo_unlink take oid param, not int4
New DISABLE_COMPLEX_MACRO for compilers that can't handle our macros(Bruce)
Libpgtcl now gets async notifies from libpq(Tom)
libpgtcl cleanups(Tom)
New locale patch, see docs/README/locale(Oleg)
Fix for pg_dump so CONSTRAINT and CHECK syntax is correct(ccb)
New contrib/lo code for large object orphan removal(Peter)
@ -299,8 +298,9 @@ Libpq can now be compiled on win32(Magnus)
Add PQsetdbLogin() in libpq
Two styles we agreed upon for database descriptors(Thomas)
New 8-byte integer type, checked by configure for OS support(Thomas)
Better support for quited table/column names(Thomas)
Surround table and column names with double-quotes(Thomas) in generated
sql code to preserve case (SQL92 syntax)(Thomas)
sql code to preserve case (SQL92 syntax)(Thomas)
New libpqrequestCancel(Tom)
PQreset() now works with passwords(Tom)
Handle case of GROUP BY target list column number out of range(David)
@ -343,9 +343,13 @@ New rewrite system fixes many problems with rules and views(Jan)
* Rules and views inherit the permissions on the creator
* No rules at the column level
* No UPDATE NEW/OLD rules
* New pg_rule and pg_view system views
* New pg_tables, pg_indexes, pg_rules and pg_views system views
* Only a single action on SELECT rules
* Total rewrite overhaul, perhaps for 6.5
* handle subselects
* handle aggregates on views
* handle insert into select from view works
*
System indexes are now multi-key(Bruce)
Oidint2, oidint4, and oidname types are removed(Bruce)
@ -358,9 +362,27 @@ New setval() command to set sequence value(Massimo)
Auto-remove unix socket file on startup if no postmaster running(Massimo)
Conditional trace package(Massimo)
New UNLISTEN command(Massimo)
Psql now compiles under win32 using win32.mak(Magnus)
Psql and libpq now compile under win32 using win32.mak(Magnus)
Lo_read no longer stores trailing NULL(Bruce)
Identifiers are now truncated to 31 characters internally(Bruce)
Createuser options now availble on the command line
PL/pgSQL backend programming language(Jan)
Code for 64-bit integer supported added, configure tested, int8 type(Thomas)
Prevent file descriptor leaf from failed COPY(Bruce)
New pg_upgrade command(Bruce)
Updated /contrib directories(Massimo)
New CREATE TABLE DEFAULT VALUES statement available(Thomas)
New INSERT INTO TABLE DEFAULT VALUES statement available(Thomas)
New DECLARE and FETCH feature(Thomas)
libpq's internal structures now not exported(Tom)
Allow up to 8 key indexes(Bruce)
Remove ARCHIVE keyword, that is no longer used(Thomas)
pg_dump -n flag to supress quotes around indentifiers
disable system columns for views(Jan)
net INET and CIDR types for network addresses(TomH, Paul)
no more double quotes in psql output
pg_dump now dumps views(Terry)
new SET QUERY_LIMIT(Tatsuo,Jan)
Source Tree Changes
-------------------
@ -380,8 +402,16 @@ Update backend flowchart in tools/backend(Bruce)
Change atttypmod from int16 to int32(Bruce, Tom)
Getrusage() fix for platforms that do not have it(Tom)
Add PGUSER to libpq man page
Ns32k platform fixes(Phil Nelson)
NS32K platform fixes(Phil Nelson, John Buller)
Sco 7/UnixWare 2.x fixes(Billy,others)
Sparc/Solaris 2.5 fixes(Ryan)
Pgbuiltin.3 is obsolete, move to doc files(Thomas)
Even more documention(Thomas)
Nextstep support(Jacek)
Aix support(David)
pginterface manual page(Bruce)
shared libraries all have version numbers
merged all OS-specific shared library defines into one file
smarter TCL/TK configuration checking(Billy)
smarter perl configuration(Brook)