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TODO list for PostgreSQL
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Last updated: Mon Oct 23 18:15:18 EDT 2000
Last updated: Mon Oct 23 21:59:07 EDT 2000
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
@@ -21,18 +21,18 @@ PARSER
* SELECT pg_class FROM pg_class generates strange error
* Alter TABLE ADD COLUMN does not honor DEFAULT, add CONSTRAINT
* -Creating index of TIMESTAMP & RELTIME fails, or rename to DATETIME(Thomas)
* SELECT foo UNION SELECT foo is incorrectly simplified to SELECT foo
* -SELECT foo UNION SELECT foo is incorrectly simplified to SELECT foo
* Unique index on base column not honored on inserts from inherited table
INSERT INTO inherit_table (unique_index_col) VALUES (dup) should fail
[inherit]
* Be smarter about promoting types when UNION merges different data types
* redesign INSERT ... SELECT to have two levels of target list
* -Be smarter about promoting types when UNION merges different data types
* -redesign INSERT ... SELECT to have two levels of target list
* have INTERSECT/EXCEPT prevent duplicates unless ALL is specified
* SELECT col::DECIMAL(12,10); fails
VIEWS
* Views containing aggregates sometimes fail(Jan)
* -Views containing aggregates sometimes fail(Jan)
* Creating view and inheriting the view causes view* to show
duplicates(inherit)
* -Disallow LOCK on view(Mark Hollomon)
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ MISC
* Buffer reference counting bugfixes
* Fix libpq bug that causes it to drop backend error message sent
just before connection closure (ie, any FATAL error message)
* SELECT ... UNION ... ORDER BY fails when sort expr not in result list
* SELECT ... UNION ... GROUP BY fails if column types disagree, no type
* -SELECT ... UNION ... ORDER BY fails when sort expr not in result list
* -SELECT ... UNION ... GROUP BY fails if column types disagree, no type
promotion occurs
* Modification of pg_class can happen while table in use by
another backend. Might lead to MVCC inside of syscache
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ ENHANCEMENTS
URGENT
* -Add OUTER joins, left and right[outer](Tom, Thomas)
* Allow long tuples by chaining or auto-storing outside db (TOAST)(Jan)
* -Allow long tuples by chaining or auto-storing outside db (TOAST)(Jan)
* Fix memory leak for expressions[memory](Tom?)
ADMIN
@@ -74,12 +74,12 @@ TYPES
* Nchar (as distinguished from ordinary varchar),
* Domain capability
* -Add STDDEV/VARIANCE() function for standard deviation computation/variance
* Allow compression of large fields or a compressed field type
* Large objects
o Fix large object mapping scheme, own typeid or reltype(Peter)
o Not to stuff everything as files in a single directory, hash dirs
o Allow large object vacuuming
o Tables that start with xinv confused to be large objects
* -Allow compression of large fields or a compressed field type
* -Large objects
o -Fix large object mapping scheme, own typeid or reltype(Peter)
o -Not to stuff everything as files in a single directory, hash dirs
o -Allow large object vacuuming
o -Tables that start with xinv confused to be large objects
* Add IPv6 capability to INET/CIDR types
* Fix improper masking of some inet/cidr types [cidr]
* Make a separate SERIAL type?
@@ -109,9 +109,9 @@ TYPES
VIEWS
* Allow DISTINCT on views
* Allow views of aggregate columns
* Allow views with subselects
* -Allow DISTINCT on views
* -Allow views of aggregate columns
* -Allow views with subselects
* Create insert, update and delete rules for simple one table views
* -Change elog for complex view ins|upd|del to "cannot {ins|upd|del}
* Add the functionality for "with check option" clause of create view
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ COMMANDS
* Rewrite the LIKE handling by rewriting the user string with the
supplied ESCAPE [like]
* Allow RULE recompilation
* Support UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT in sub-selects
* -Support UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT in sub-selects
* -Allow DELETE and UPDATE to use inheritance
* Allow INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (a, b, c, DEFAULT, x, y, z, ...)
* Allow BINARY option to SELECT, like we do with DECLARE
@@ -208,15 +208,15 @@ MISC
with after-row images(Vadim) [logging](Vadim)(in-progress)
* Populate backend status area and write program to dump status data
* Make oid use unsigned int more reliably, pg_atoi()
* Put sort files, large objects in their own directory
* Put sort files 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](Tom)
* -Redesign the function call interface to handle NULLs better[function](Tom)
* Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc. [optimizer]
* Overhaul bufmgr/lockmgr/transaction manager
* Allow BLCKSZ <= 64k, not <= 32k
* redesign UNION structures to have separarate target lists
* Allow multi-level query trees for INSERT INTO ... SELECT
* -redesign UNION structures to have separarate target lists
* -Allow multi-level query trees for INSERT INTO ... SELECT
* Use IPC_EXCL when creating shared memory and semaphores
* have pg_upgrade use pg_ctl to stop/start postmaster
* Encrpyt passwords in pg_shadow table using MD5
@@ -258,16 +258,17 @@ MISC
* 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
* -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 [memory]
* In WHERE tab1.x=3 AND tab1.x=tab2.y, add tab2.y=3
* -In WHERE tab1.x=3 AND tab1.x=tab2.y, add tab2.y=3
* Allow persistent backends [persistent]
* prevent labels from being output for stored rules (Tom)
* allow configuration of maximum number of open files
* Remove pg_listener index
* Remove ANALYZE from VACUUM so it can be run separately without locks
* -Redesign ANALYZE in VACUUM so it can be run separately without locks
* Make ANALYZE a separate command
* Gather more accurate dispersion statistics using indexes
* Keep statistics about clustering of table rows [optimizer]
* Improve statistics storage in pg_class [performance]