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< * -Make postmater and postgres options distinct so the postmaster -o < option is no longer needed < * -Allow pooled connections to list all prepared statements < < This would allow an application inheriting a pooled connection to know < the statements prepared in the current session. < < * -Re-enable the GUC full_page_writes in 8.2 when reliability issues have < been addressed < o -Add "include file" functionality in postgresql.conf < o -Allow per-database permissions to be set via GRANT < < Allow database connection checks based on GRANT rules in < addition to the existing access checks in pg_hba.conf. < < o -Issue a warning if a change-on-restart-only postgresql.conf value > o Issue a warning if a change-on-restart-only postgresql.conf value < o -Automatically force archiving of partially-filled WAL files when < pg_stop_backup() is called or the server is stopped < o -Add reporting of the current WAL file and offset, perhaps as < part of partial log file archiving < * -Allow server logs to be remotely read and removed using SQL commands < * -Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged < * -Zero umasked bits in conversion from INET cast to CIDR < * -Prevent INET cast to CIDR from dropping netmask, SELECT '1.1.1.1'::inet::cidr < * -Allow INET + INT8 to increment the host part of the address or < throw an error on overflow < * -Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery < o -Allow customization of the known set of TZ names (generalize the < present australian_timezones hack) < o -Allow timezone names in SQL strings, '2006-05-24 21:11 < Americas/New_York'::timestamptz < o -Add support for day-time syntax, INTERVAL '1 2:03:04' DAY TO < SECOND < o -Allow NULLs in arrays < * -Add transaction_timestamp(), statement_timestamp(), clock_timestamp() < functionality < < Current CURRENT_TIMESTAMP returns the start time of the current < transaction, and gettimeofday() returns the wallclock time. This will < make time reporting more consistent and will allow reporting of < the statement start time. < < * -Allow to_char() to print localized month names < * -Add sleep() function, remove from regress.c < * -Allow user-defined functions retuning a domain value to enforce domain < constraints < * -Allow TRUNCATE ... CASCADE/RESTRICT < < This is like DELETE CASCADE, but truncates. < < * -Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (roles, databases < and tablespaces) < * -Make row-wise comparisons work per SQL spec < < Right now, '(a, b) < (1, 2)' is processed as 'a < 1 and b < 2', but < the SQL standard requires it to be processed as a column-by-column < comparison, so the proper comparison is '(a < 1) OR (a = 1 AND b < 2)'. < < * -Enable escape_string_warning and standard_conforming_strings > * Enable standard_conforming_strings < o -Add ON COMMIT capability to CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT < o -Allow an alias to be provided for the target table in < UPDATE/DELETE (Neil) < o -Allow UPDATE tab SET ROW (col, ...) = (val, ...) for updating < multiple columns < o -Add ALTER TABLE tab INHERIT / NO INHERIT parent < o -Have COPY return the number of rows loaded/unloaded? < o -Allow COPY (SELECT ...) TO 'filename' < < o -Allow pooled connections to list all open WITH HOLD cursors < < Because WITH HOLD cursors exist outside transactions, this allows < them to be listed so they can be closed. < < o -Allow INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..) < o -Allow INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING new.col or old.col < o -Allow PL/python to return composite types and result sets < < * -Have initdb set the input DateStyle (MDY or DMY) based on locale < o -Improve psql's handling of multi-line statements < < Currently, while \e saves a single statement as one entry, interactive < statements are saved one line at a time. Ideally all statements < would be saved like \e does. < < o -Allow multi-line column values to align in the proper columns < < If the second output column value is 'a\nb', the 'b' should appear < in the second display column, rather than the first column as it < does now. < < o -Display IN, INOUT, and OUT parameters in \df < o -Allow pg_dump to use multiple -t and -n switches, exclusion < ability, and regular expression object matching < o -Update pg_dump and psql to use the new COPY libpq API (Christopher) < o -Add a function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability < * -Add fillfactor to control reserved free space during index creation < * -Add system view to show free space map contents < * -Allow installing to directories containing spaces < < This is possible if proper quoting is added to the makefiles for the < install targets. Because PostgreSQL supports relocatable installs, it < is already possible to install into a directory that doesn't contain < spaces and then copy the install to a directory with spaces. < < * -%Clean up compiler warnings (especially with gcc version 4) < * -Remove BeOS and QNX-specific code < o -Port contrib/xml2
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PostgreSQL TODO List
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====================
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us)
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Last updated: Mon Sep 18 12:23:58 EDT 2006
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Last updated: Tue Sep 19 15:19:50 EDT 2006
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The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
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http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
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@ -20,13 +20,6 @@ first.
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Administration
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==============
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* -Make postmater and postgres options distinct so the postmaster -o
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option is no longer needed
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* -Allow pooled connections to list all prepared statements
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This would allow an application inheriting a pooled connection to know
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the statements prepared in the current session.
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* Allow major upgrades without dump/reload, perhaps using pg_upgrade
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[pg_upgrade]
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* Check for unreferenced table files created by transactions that were
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@ -62,8 +55,6 @@ Administration
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Another idea is to allow separate configuration files for each module,
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or allow arbitrary SET commands to be passed to them.
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* -Re-enable the GUC full_page_writes in 8.2 when reliability issues have
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been addressed
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* Simplify ability to create partitioned tables
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This would allow creation of partitioned tables without requiring
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@ -87,7 +78,6 @@ Administration
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* Configuration files
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o -Add "include file" functionality in postgresql.conf
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o Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them
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to defaults
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@ -95,11 +85,6 @@ Administration
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previous uncommented value until a server restarted.
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http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01481.php
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o -Allow per-database permissions to be set via GRANT
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Allow database connection checks based on GRANT rules in
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addition to the existing access checks in pg_hba.conf.
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o Allow pg_hba.conf to specify host names along with IP addresses
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Host name lookup could occur when the postmaster reads the
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@ -112,7 +97,7 @@ Administration
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o %Allow postgresql.conf file values to be changed via an SQL
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API, perhaps using SET GLOBAL
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o Allow the server to be stopped/restarted via an SQL API
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o -Issue a warning if a change-on-restart-only postgresql.conf value
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o Issue a warning if a change-on-restart-only postgresql.conf value
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is modified and the server config files are reloaded
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o Mark change-on-restart-only values in postgresql.conf
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@ -160,10 +145,6 @@ Administration
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most recent transactions aren't available for recovery in case
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of a disk failure.
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o -Automatically force archiving of partially-filled WAL files when
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pg_stop_backup() is called or the server is stopped
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o -Add reporting of the current WAL file and offset, perhaps as
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part of partial log file archiving
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o %Create dump tool for write-ahead logs for use in determining
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transaction id for point-in-time recovery
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o Allow a warm standby system to also allow read-only statements
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@ -183,8 +164,6 @@ Monitoring
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a database for analysis.
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* %Add ability to monitor the use of temporary sort files
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* -Allow server logs to be remotely read and removed using SQL commands
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* -Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged
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Data Types
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inaccurate, in one sense.
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* Fix data types where equality comparison isn't intuitive, e.g. box
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* -Zero umasked bits in conversion from INET cast to CIDR
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* -Prevent INET cast to CIDR from dropping netmask, SELECT '1.1.1.1'::inet::cidr
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* -Allow INET + INT8 to increment the host part of the address or
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throw an error on overflow
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* -Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery
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* Allow user-defined types to specify a type modifier at table creation
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time
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* Allow user-defined types to accept 'typmod' parameters
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o Allow infinite dates and intervals just like infinite timestamps
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o Merge hardwired timezone names with the TZ database; allow either
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kind everywhere a TZ name is currently taken
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o -Allow customization of the known set of TZ names (generalize the
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present australian_timezones hack)
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o Allow TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE to store the original timezone
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information, either zone name or offset from UTC [timezone]
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If the TIMESTAMP value is stored with a time zone name, interval
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computations should adjust based on the time zone rules.
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o -Allow timezone names in SQL strings, '2006-05-24 21:11
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Americas/New_York'::timestamptz
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o Fix SELECT '0.01 years'::interval, '0.01 months'::interval
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o Add a GUC variable to allow output of interval values in ISO8601
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format
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@ -280,8 +250,6 @@ Data Types
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http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-01/msg00250.php
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http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-04/msg00248.php
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o -Add support for day-time syntax, INTERVAL '1 2:03:04' DAY TO
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SECOND
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o Support ISO INTERVAL syntax if units cannot be determined from
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the string, and are supplied after the string
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* Arrays
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o -Allow NULLs in arrays
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o Delay resolution of array expression's data type so assignment
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coercion can be performed on empty array expressions
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o Add support for arrays of domains
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@ -342,20 +309,11 @@ Functions
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=========
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* Allow INET subnet tests using non-constants to be indexed
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* -Add transaction_timestamp(), statement_timestamp(), clock_timestamp()
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functionality
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Current CURRENT_TIMESTAMP returns the start time of the current
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transaction, and gettimeofday() returns the wallclock time. This will
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make time reporting more consistent and will allow reporting of
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the statement start time.
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* %Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(),
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pg_get_tabledef(), pg_get_domaindef(), pg_get_functiondef()
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These would be for application use, not for use by pg_dump.
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* -Allow to_char() to print localized month names
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* Allow to_date() and to_timestamp() accept localized month names
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* Add missing parameter handling in to_char()
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o to_char(INTERVAL '43 hours 20 minutes', 'WK:DD:HR:MI') => 0:1:19:20
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o to_char(INTERVAL '3 years 5 months','MM') => 41
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* -Add sleep() function, remove from regress.c
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* -Allow user-defined functions retuning a domain value to enforce domain
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constraints
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* Add SPI_gettypmod() to return the typemod for a TupleDesc
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* Allow inlining of set-returning functions
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@ -448,10 +403,6 @@ SQL Commands
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* Add CORRESPONDING BY to UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT
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* Add ROLLUP, CUBE, GROUPING SETS options to GROUP BY
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* %Allow SET CONSTRAINTS to be qualified by schema/table name
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* -Allow TRUNCATE ... CASCADE/RESTRICT
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This is like DELETE CASCADE, but truncates.
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* %Add a separate TRUNCATE permission
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Currently only the owner can TRUNCATE a table because triggers are not
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* Add NOVICE output level for helpful messages like automatic sequence/index
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creation
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* -Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (roles, databases
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and tablespaces)
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* -Make row-wise comparisons work per SQL spec
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Right now, '(a, b) < (1, 2)' is processed as 'a < 1 and b < 2', but
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the SQL standard requires it to be processed as a column-by-column
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comparison, so the proper comparison is '(a < 1) OR (a = 1 AND b < 2)'.
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* Add RESET CONNECTION command to reset all session state
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This would include resetting of all variables (RESET ALL), dropping of
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* Allow EXPLAIN to identify tables that were skipped because of
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constraint_exclusion
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* Allow EXPLAIN output to be more easily processed by scripts
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* -Enable escape_string_warning and standard_conforming_strings
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* Enable standard_conforming_strings
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* Make standard_conforming_strings the default in 8.3?
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When this is done, backslash-quote should be prohibited in non-E''
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expressions like SELECT col1 || col2
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o Use more reliable method for CREATE DATABASE to get a consistent
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copy of db?
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o -Add ON COMMIT capability to CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT
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* UPDATE
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o -Allow an alias to be provided for the target table in
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UPDATE/DELETE (Neil)
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o -Allow UPDATE tab SET ROW (col, ...) = (val, ...) for updating
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multiple columns
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o Allow UPDATE tab SET ROW (col, ...) = (SELECT...)
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http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-07/msg01306.php
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is used
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o %Prevent child tables from altering or dropping constraints
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like CHECK that were inherited from the parent table
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o -Add ALTER TABLE tab INHERIT / NO INHERIT parent
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o Have ALTER INDEX update the name of a constraint using that index
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o Add ALTER TABLE RENAME CONSTRAINT, update index name also
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This requires the use of a savepoint before each COPY line is
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processed, with ROLLBACK on COPY failure.
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o -Have COPY return the number of rows loaded/unloaded?
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o Allow COPY on a newly-created table to skip WAL logging
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On crash recovery, the table involved in the COPY would
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the table at the same time, which is something that is
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currently allowed.
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o -Allow COPY (SELECT ...) TO 'filename'
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* GRANT/REVOKE
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o Prevent DROP TABLE from dropping a row referenced by its own open
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cursor?
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o -Allow pooled connections to list all open WITH HOLD cursors
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Because WITH HOLD cursors exist outside transactions, this allows
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them to be listed so they can be closed.
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* INSERT
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o Allow INSERT/UPDATE of the system-generated oid value for a row
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o -Allow INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..)
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o -Allow INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING new.col or old.col
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o In rules, allow VALUES() to contain a mixture of 'old' and 'new'
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references
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http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-02/msg00288.php
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o -Allow PL/python to return composite types and result sets
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Clients
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=======
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* -Have initdb set the input DateStyle (MDY or DMY) based on locale
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* Have pg_ctl look at PGHOST in case it is a socket directory?
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* Allow pg_ctl to work properly with configuration files located outside
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the PGDATA directory
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o Allow psql \pset boolean variables to set to fixed values, rather
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than toggle
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o Consistently display privilege information for all objects in psql
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o -Improve psql's handling of multi-line statements
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Currently, while \e saves a single statement as one entry, interactive
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statements are saved one line at a time. Ideally all statements
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would be saved like \e does.
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o -Allow multi-line column values to align in the proper columns
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If the second output column value is 'a\nb', the 'b' should appear
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in the second display column, rather than the first column as it
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does now.
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o -Display IN, INOUT, and OUT parameters in \df
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o Add auto-expanded mode so expanded output is used if the row
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length is wider than the screen width.
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* pg_dump
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o -Allow pg_dump to use multiple -t and -n switches, exclusion
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ability, and regular expression object matching
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o %Add dumping of comments on index columns and composite type columns
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o %Add full object name to the tag field. eg. for operators we need
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'=(integer, integer)', instead of just '='.
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o Add pg_dumpall custom format dumps?
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o -Update pg_dump and psql to use the new COPY libpq API (Christopher)
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o Remove unnecessary function pointer abstractions in pg_dump source
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code
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o Allow selection of individual object(s) of all types, not just
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* libpq
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o -Add a function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability
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o Add PQescapeIdentifierConn()
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o Prevent PQfnumber() from lowercasing unquoted the column name
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* Allow accurate statistics to be collected on indexes with more than
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one column or expression indexes, perhaps using per-index statistics
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* -Add fillfactor to control reserved free space during index creation
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* Allow the creation of indexes with mixed ascending/descending
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specifiers
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index entry) might be slow and unreliable, especially for user-defined
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index functions.
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* -Add system view to show free space map contents
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* Allow FSM to return free space toward the beginning of the heap file,
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in hopes that empty pages at the end can be truncated by VACUUM
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* Allow FSM page return free space based on table clustering, to assist
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This is probably not possible because 'gmake' and other compiler tools
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do not fully support quoting of paths with spaces.
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* -Allow installing to directories containing spaces
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This is possible if proper quoting is added to the makefiles for the
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install targets. Because PostgreSQL supports relocatable installs, it
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is already possible to install into a directory that doesn't contain
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spaces and then copy the install to a directory with spaces.
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* Fix sgmltools so PDFs can be generated with bookmarks
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* -%Clean up compiler warnings (especially with gcc version 4)
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* Use UTF8 encoding for NLS messages so all server encodings can
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read them properly
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* Update Bonjour to work with newer cross-platform SDK
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* -Remove BeOS and QNX-specific code
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* Split out libpq pgpass and environment documentation sections to make
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it easier for non-developers to find
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* Improve port/qsort() to handle sorts with 50% unique and 50% duplicate
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option is to wait for the MinGW project to fix it, or use the
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code from the LibGW32C project as a guide.
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o -Port contrib/xml2
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o Check WSACancelBlockingCall() for interrupts [win32intr]
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