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TODO list for PostgreSQL
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Remove items completed in 7.4:
< * -Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
< number, not just messages (Tom)
< * -Add error codes (Tom)
< * -Make error messages more consistent
40d35
< * -Add GUC log_statement_and_duration to print statement and >= min duration
51d45
< * -Allow easy display of usernames in a group
53d46
< * -Add start time to pg_stat_activity
55d47
< * -Have standalone backend read postgresql.conf (Tom)
59d50
< * -Allow CIDR format to be used in pg_hba.conf
74d64
< * -Add IPv6 capability to INET/CIDR types
77d66
< * -Change NUMERIC data type to use base 10,000 internally
82d70
< * -Add GUC variables to control floating number output digits (Pedro Ferreira)
90,92d77
< * -Allow current datestyle to restrict dates; prevent month/day swapping
< from making invalid dates valid
< * -Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
102d86
< o -Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
104d87
< o -Support construction of array result values in expressions (Joe)
128d110
< * -Remove Cyrillic recode support
146,147d127
< * -Allow CREATE INDEX zman_index ON test (date_trunc( 'day', zman ) datetime_ops)
< fails index can't store constant parameters
155d134
< * -Add btree index support for reltime, tinterval, regproc (Tom)
157d135
< * -Certain indexes will not shrink, e.g. indexes on ever-increasing
161d138
< * -Allow LIKE indexing optimization for non-ASCII locales using special index
173d149
< * -Improve concurrency of hash indexes (Tom)
181d156
< * -Allow LIMIT/OFFSET to use expressions (Tom)
187d161
< * -Return proper effected tuple count from complex commands [return]
191d164
< * -Make a transaction-safe TRUNCATE (Rod)
196,197d168
< * -Allow UPDATE to use SET col = DEFAULT
< * -Add config variable to prevent auto-adding missing FROM-clause tables
199d169
< * -Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds in ISO datestyle
224,225d193
< o -Add ALTER TABLE tab SET WITHOUT OIDS (Rod)
< o -Add ALTER SEQUENCE to modify min/max/increment/cache/cycle values
237d204
< o -Allow CLUSTER to cluster all tables (Alvaro Herrera)
248d214
< o -MOVE 0 should not move to end of cursor (Bruce)
252d217
< o -Allow cursors outside transactions
264,265d228
< o -Allow EXPLAIN EXECUTE to see prepared plans
< o -Allow SHOW of some non-modifiable variables, like pg_controldata
280d242
< o -Allow array declarations and other data types in PL/PgSQL DECLARE
282,283d243
< o -Make PL/PgSQL %TYPE schema-aware
< o -Allow PL/PgSQL to support array element assignment (Joe)
294,298d253
< * -Allow psql to show transaction status if backend protocol changes made
< * -Add schema, cast, and conversion backslash commands to psql (Christopher)
< * -Allow pg_dump to dump a specific schema (Neil Conway)
< * -Allow psql to do table completion for SELECT * FROM schema_part and
< table completion for SELECT * FROM schema_name.
300,302d254
< * -Allow SSL-enabled clients to turn off SSL transfers
< * -Modify pg_get_triggerdef() to take a boolean to pretty-print,
< and use that as part of pg_dump along with psql
327d278
< o -Add SQLSTATE
330d280
< o -Make casts work in variable initializations
334,336d283
< o -Allow multi-threaded use of SQLCA
< o -Understand structure definitions outside a declare section
< o -Allow :var[:index] or :var[<integer>] as cvariable for an array var
356d302
< * -Support statement-level triggers (Neil)
460,461d405
< * -Add checkpoint_min_warning postgresql.conf option to warn about checkpoints
< that are too frequent (Bruce)
472,476d415
< * -Improve Subplan list handling
< * -Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
< * -Add hash for evaluating GROUP BY aggregates (Tom)
< * -Allow merge and hash joins on expressions not just simple variables (Tom)
< * -Make IN/NOT IN have similar performance to EXISTS/NOT EXISTS (Tom)
480d418
< * -Inline simple SQL functions to avoid overhead (Tom)
495d432
< * -Get faster regex() code from Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.utoronto.ca>
511,512d447
< * -Modify regression tests to prevent failures do to minor numeric rounding
< * -Add OpenBSD's getpeereid() call for local socket authentication
537,542d471
< o -Show transaction status in psql
< o -Allow binding of query parameters, support for prepared queries
< o -Remove hard-coded limits on user/db/password names
< o -Remove unused elements of startup packet (unused, tty, passlength)
< o -Fix COPY/fastpath protocol
< o -Error codes
544d472
< o -Special passing of binary values in platform-neutral format (bytea?)
547d474
< o -Report server version number, database encoding, client encoding
2003-11-20 01:34:01 +08:00
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Last updated: Wed Nov 19 12:33:55 EST 2003
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1996-08-19 06:14:33 +08:00
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1999-11-14 13:11:02 +08:00
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
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1996-08-19 06:14:33 +08:00
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1996-10-04 23:15:24 +08:00
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The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
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1999-07-13 11:07:20 +08:00
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the PostgreSQL web site, http://www.PostgreSQL.org.
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1996-10-04 23:15:24 +08:00
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Remove completed items:
< A dash (-) marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 7.3 release.
> A dash (-) marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 7.4 release.
38d37
< * -Change DEBUG startup tag to LOG (Bruce)
40,51d38
< * -Add pg_backend_pid() function to backend
< * -Allow logging of query durations
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< Permissions
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< * -Improve control over user privileges, including table creation
< * -Allow user/group names to be specified directly in pg_hba.conf (Bruce)
< * -Add ~/.pgpass to store passwords with user/host/password combinations
< * -Allow permissions for functions (Peter E)
< * -Allow object creation to be disabled for specific users
58,60d44
< * -Make it easier to create a database owned by someone who can't createdb,
< perhaps CREATE DATABASE dbname WITH OWNER = "user" (Gavin)
< * -Make equals sign optional in CREATE DATABASE WITH param = 'val'
65,66d48
< * -Prevent SIGHUP and 'pg_ctl reload' from changing command line
< specified parameters to postgresql.conf defaults (Peter E)
69,70d50
< * -Reserve last few process slots for super-user if max_connections reached
< * -Add GUC parameter to print queries that generate errors
79d58
< * -Add domain capability (Rod Taylor)
82,84d60
< * -SELECT cash_out(2) crashes because of opaque
< * -Declare typein/out functions in pg_proc with a special "C string" data type
< * -Functions returning sets do not totally work
89d64
< * -Add GUC parameter for DATESTYLE
91,93d65
< * -Allow bytea to handle LIKE with non-TEXT patterns
< * -to_char(0,'FM999.99') returns a period, to_char(1,'FM999.99') doesn't (Karel)
< * -Add floor(float8) and other missing functions
97d68
< o -Store binary-compatible type information in the system
104d74
< o -Ensure we have array-eq operators for every built-in array type
139,140d108
< * -Remove brackets as multi-statement rule grouping, must use parens (Bruce)
< * -Prevent aggregates from being used in rule WHERE clauses
154d121
< * -Allow UPDATE/DELETE on inherited table
166d132
< * -Add deleted bit to index tuples to reduce heap access
176d141
< * -Test hash index performance and discourage usage
182d146
< * -Add SIMILAR TO to allow character classes, 'pg_[a-c]%'
184d147
< * -Remove LIMIT #,# and force use LIMIT and OFFSET clauses in 7.3 (Bruce)
186,187d148
< * -Disallow TRUNCATE on tables that are involved in referential constraints
< * -Add OR REPLACE clauses to non-FUNCTION object creation
190d150
< * -Prevent create/drop scripts from allowing extra args (Bruce)
201,205d160
< o -Add ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN feature
< o -Add ALTER TABLE DROP non-CHECK CONSTRAINT
< o -ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY (Tom)
< o -ALTER TABLE ADD UNIQUE (Tom)
< o -ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN SET/DROP NOT NULL (Christopher)
210d164
< o -Have ALTER TABLE OWNER change all dependant objects like indexes
214,216d167
< o -Cluster all tables at once using pg_index.indisclustered set during
< previous CLUSTER
< o -Prevent loss of indexes, permissions, inheritance
221d171
< o -Allow specification of column names
224d173
< o -Change syntax to WITH DELIMITER, (keep old syntax around?)
228d176
< o -Generate failure on short COPY lines rather than pad NULLs
242,243d189
< o -Allow INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (a, b, c, DEFAULT, x, y, z, ...)
< o -Disallow missing columns in INSERT ... (col) VALUES, per ANSI
248,249d193
< o -Add command to display locks
< o -Add SET or BEGIN timeout parameter to cancel query
251d194
< o -Remove SET KSQO option now that OR processing is improved (Bruce)
254,256d196
< o -Add SHOW command to see locale
< o -Allow SHOW to output as a query result, like EXPLAIN
< o -Abort all SET changes made in an aborted transaction
264d203
< o -Fix PL/PgSQL to handle quoted mixed-case identifiers
287,291d225
< * -Have pg_dump use LEFT OUTER JOIN in multi-table SELECTs
< or multiple SELECTS to avoid bad system catalog entries
< * -Have pg_dump -C dump database location and encoding information
< * -Allow psql \d to show foreign keys
< * -Allow psql \d to show temporary table structure (Tom)
294d227
< * -Have pg_dump use ADD PRIMARY KEY after COPY, for performance (Neil)
302d234
< o -Updateable resultSet
307d238
< o -Implement cancel() method on Statement
309d239
< o -Add support for CallableStatements
311d240
< o -Compile under jdk 1.4
334d262
< * -Allow oid to act as a foreign key
337,338d264
< * -Allow user to control trigger firing order (Tom)
< * -Add ALTER TRIGGER ... RENAME
341d266
< * -Fix foreign key constraints to not error on intermediate db states (Stephan)
350,359d274
< * -Add pg_depend table for dependency recording; use sysrelid, oid,
< depend_sysrelid, depend_oid, name
< * -Auto-destroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL; perhaps a separate
< SERIAL type
< * -Prevent column dropping if column is used by foreign key
< * -Propagate column or table renaming to foreign key constraints
< * -Automatically drop constraints/functions when object is dropped
< * -Make foreign key constraints clearer in dump file
< * -Make other constraints clearer in dump file
< * -Make foreign keys easier to identify
367d281
< * -Allow autocommit so always in a transaction block
377d290
< * -Add SQL92 schemas (Tom)
400d312
< * -Cache most recent query plan(s) (Neil) [prepare]
439d350
< * -Cache system catalog information in per-database files (Tom)
450,451d360
< * -Reorder postgresql.conf WAL items in order of importance (Bruce)
< * -Remove wal_files postgresql.conf option because WAL files are now recycled
465,466d373
< * -Improve dynamic memory allocation by introducing tuple-context memory
< allocation (Tom)
468d374
< * -Nested FULL OUTER JOINs don't work (Tom)
470,472d375
< * -Add new pg_proc cachable settings to specify whether function can be
< evaluated only once or once per query
< * -Change FIXED_CHAR_SEL to 0.20 from 0.04 to give better selectivity (Bruce)
494,496d396
< * -Add Intimate Shared Memory(ISM) for Solaris
< * -Use faster flex flags for performance improvement (Peter E)
< * -Add BSD-licensed qsort() for Solaris
503,507d402
< * -Fix problems with libpq non-blocking/async code
< * -Make sure all block numbers are unsigned to increase maximum table size
< * -Merge LockMethodCtl and LockMethodTable into one shared structure (Bruce)
< * -HOLDER/HOLDERTAB rename to PROCLOCK/PROCLOCKTAG (Bruce)
< * -Remove LockMethodTable.prio field, not used (Bruce)
512,513d406
< * -Make one version of simple_prompt() in code (Bruce, Tom)
< * -Compile in syslog functionaility by default (Tatsuo)
517d409
< * -Report failure to find readline or zlib at end of configure run
519,520d410
< * -Increase identifier length (NAMEDATALEN) if small performance hit,
< * -Increase maximum number of function parameters if little wasted space
529,530d418
< * -Fix glibc's mktime() to handle pre-1970's dates
< * -Move /contrib/retep to gborg.postgresql.org
2002-11-06 13:55:14 +08:00
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1999-06-07 10:42:07 +08:00
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1999-07-07 04:41:22 +08:00
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2000-12-27 13:44:57 +08:00
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* Add replication of distributed databases [replication]
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2003-03-06 10:29:44 +08:00
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o Automatic failover
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o Load balancing
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o Master/slave replication
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o Multi-master replication
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o Partition data across servers
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2003-10-24 11:24:32 +08:00
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o Queries across databases or servers (two-phase commit)
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2003-03-06 10:29:44 +08:00
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o Allow replication over unreliable or non-persistent links
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2001-11-09 02:24:55 +08:00
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o http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgreplication/projdisplay.php
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2000-12-27 13:44:57 +08:00
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* Point-in-time data recovery using backup and write-ahead log
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2003-10-09 05:44:06 +08:00
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* Create native Win32 port, http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/win32.html
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Reporting
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2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
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* Show location of syntax error in query [yacc]
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2002-04-18 04:35:23 +08:00
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2002-08-14 10:51:13 +08:00
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2002-04-26 04:20:50 +08:00
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Administration
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2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
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* Incremental backups
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2002-04-01 09:56:38 +08:00
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* Remove unreferenced table files and temp tables during database vacuum
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2001-11-23 10:22:04 +08:00
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or postmaster startup (Bruce)
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2001-10-12 10:50:48 +08:00
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* Remove behavior of postmaster -o after making postmaster/postgres
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flags unique
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2002-08-16 12:31:52 +08:00
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* Allow configuration files to be specified in a different directory
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2002-10-26 03:03:04 +08:00
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* Allow limits on per-db/user connections
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2003-01-26 09:13:34 +08:00
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* Add group object ownership, so groups can rename/drop/grant on objects,
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so we can implement roles
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2003-01-28 07:16:52 +08:00
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* Add the concept of dataspaces/tablespaces [tablespaces]
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2003-06-03 02:51:43 +08:00
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* Allow logging of only data definition(DDL), or DDL and modification statements
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2003-07-31 03:16:18 +08:00
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* Allow log lines to include session-level information, like database and user
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2003-07-31 04:23:32 +08:00
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* Allow server log information to be output as INSERT statements
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2003-08-13 11:12:04 +08:00
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* Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and groups
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* Prevent dropping user that still owns objects, or auto-drop the objects
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2003-08-17 12:43:48 +08:00
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* Allow pooled connections to query prepared queries
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* Allow pooled connections to close all open WITH HOLD cursors
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2003-09-24 04:45:58 +08:00
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* Allow major upgrades without dump/reload, perhaps using pg_upgrade
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2003-09-30 00:52:14 +08:00
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* Have SHOW ALL and pg_settings show descriptions for server-side variables(Joe)
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2002-09-05 06:09:47 +08:00
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2003-01-28 07:19:18 +08:00
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Data Types
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1999-07-07 04:41:22 +08:00
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* Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type
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2001-12-30 04:40:42 +08:00
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* Change factorial to return a numeric
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2002-04-13 09:37:54 +08:00
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* Change NUMERIC to enforce the maximum precision, and increase it
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2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
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* Add function to return compressed length of TOAST data values (Tom)
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2003-10-21 23:48:56 +08:00
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* Allow INET subnet tests using non-constants to be indexed
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2003-05-27 02:36:51 +08:00
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* Add transaction_timestamp(), statement_timestamp(), clock_timestamp() functionality
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2002-11-22 03:15:04 +08:00
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* Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences, seqname.nextval
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2003-01-02 03:04:07 +08:00
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* Disallow changing default expression of a SERIAL column
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2002-12-30 12:48:57 +08:00
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* Allow infinite dates just like infinite timestamps
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2003-02-18 11:47:39 +08:00
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* Allow pg_dump to dump sequences using NO_MAXVALUE and NO_MINVALUE
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2003-03-08 11:03:49 +08:00
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* Allow better handling of numeric constants, type conversion [typeconv]
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2003-05-25 02:25:35 +08:00
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* Allow backend to output result sets in XML
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2003-05-31 10:54:57 +08:00
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* Prevent whole-row references from leaking memory, e.g. SELECT COUNT(tab.*)
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2003-06-24 03:33:40 +08:00
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* Have initdb set DateStyle based on locale?
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2003-08-17 11:56:16 +08:00
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* Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), and pg_get_attrdef()
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2003-08-17 12:28:15 +08:00
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* Add ALTER DOMAIN, AGGREGATE, CONVERSION, SEQUENCE ... OWNER TO
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2003-09-04 07:01:47 +08:00
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* Allow to_char to print localized month names (Karel)
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2003-10-23 01:14:39 +08:00
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* Allow functions to have a search path specified at creation time
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2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
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2001-05-17 11:22:53 +08:00
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* ARRAYS
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o Allow nulls in arrays
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o Allow MIN()/MAX() on arrays
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2003-08-09 01:13:02 +08:00
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o Delay resolution of array expression type so assignment coercion
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can be performed on empty array expressions (Joe)
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2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
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2001-10-24 07:27:18 +08:00
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* BINARY DATA
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o Improve vacuum of large objects, like /contrib/vacuumlo
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2001-09-07 04:37:14 +08:00
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o Add security checking for large objects
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interface (force out-of-line storage and no compression)
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o Auto-delete large objects when referencing row is deleted
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2001-05-11 01:29:55 +08:00
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2002-02-04 03:24:30 +08:00
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2001-05-11 01:29:55 +08:00
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2001-05-17 11:22:53 +08:00
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* Add NCHAR (as distinguished from ordinary varchar),
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* Allow LOCALE on a per-column basis, default to ASCII
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2000-06-14 10:57:08 +08:00
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* Support multiple simultaneous character sets, per SQL92
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2001-10-02 09:20:05 +08:00
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* Improve Unicode combined character handling
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2001-10-04 12:24:24 +08:00
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* Optimize locale to have minimal performance impact when not used (Peter E)
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2001-11-20 23:28:37 +08:00
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* Add octet_length_server() and octet_length_client() (Thomas, Tatsuo)
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2001-11-22 02:49:10 +08:00
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* Make octet_length_client the same as octet_length() (?)
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2002-08-16 12:45:44 +08:00
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* Prevent mismatch of frontend/backend encodings from converting bytea
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2003-08-17 12:50:57 +08:00
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* Fix upper()/lower() to work for multibyte encodings
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2001-06-13 02:15:50 +08:00
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* Automatically create rules on views so they are updateable, per SQL92 [view]
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2002-06-29 03:28:30 +08:00
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* Add the functionality for WITH CHECK OPTION clause of CREATE VIEW
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2001-01-27 13:40:51 +08:00
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* Allow NOTIFY in rules involving conditionals
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2002-08-14 11:41:09 +08:00
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* Have views on temporary tables exist in the temporary namespace
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2001-10-12 04:40:38 +08:00
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* Move psql backslash information into views
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2001-12-06 07:11:30 +08:00
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* Allow RULE recompilation
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2002-02-04 03:24:30 +08:00
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2001-09-23 11:39:01 +08:00
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* Order duplicate index entries by tid for faster heap lookups
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2001-06-10 09:25:01 +08:00
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* Allow inherited tables to inherit index, UNIQUE constraint, and primary
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key, foreign key [inheritance]
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2001-05-22 02:36:58 +08:00
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* UNIQUE INDEX on base column not honored on inserts from inherited table
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INSERT INTO inherit_table (unique_index_col) VALUES (dup) should fail
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[inheritance]
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2001-11-23 10:22:04 +08:00
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* Add UNIQUE capability to non-btree indexes
|
2001-05-11 01:29:55 +08:00
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* Add rtree index support for line, lseg, path, point
|
2002-06-04 01:41:37 +08:00
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columns and indexes with many duplicate keys
|
2001-10-13 00:13:48 +08:00
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* Use indexes for min() and max() or convert to SELECT col FROM tab ORDER
|
2001-10-13 01:23:04 +08:00
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BY col DESC LIMIT 1 if appropriate index exists and WHERE clause acceptible
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2001-05-11 04:26:45 +08:00
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* Use index to restrict rows returned by multi-key index when used with
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non-consecutive keys or OR clauses, so fewer heap accesses
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* Be smarter about insertion of already-ordered data into btree index
|
2003-02-19 09:36:32 +08:00
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* Prevent index uniqueness checks when UPDATE does not modify the column
|
2002-08-13 12:32:28 +08:00
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* Use bitmaps to fetch heap pages in sequential order [performance]
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* Use bitmaps to combine existing indexes [performance]
|
2003-10-21 10:48:09 +08:00
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* Allow use of indexes to search for NULLs
|
2001-11-23 10:22:04 +08:00
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* Allow SELECT * FROM tab WHERE int2col = 4 to use int2col index, int8,
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float4, numeric/decimal too [optimizer]
|
2002-06-02 03:53:31 +08:00
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* Add FILLFACTOR to btree index creation
|
2002-10-29 11:22:43 +08:00
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* Add concurrency to GIST
|
2003-06-03 02:42:31 +08:00
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* Allow a single index to index multiple tables (for inheritance and subtables)
|
2001-05-11 06:36:52 +08:00
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2002-08-14 10:51:13 +08:00
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2002-04-26 04:20:50 +08:00
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Commands
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========
|
1999-06-07 10:42:07 +08:00
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2002-04-18 11:10:29 +08:00
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* Add BETWEEN ASYMMETRIC/SYMMETRIC (Christopher)
|
2003-10-26 12:43:55 +08:00
|
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* Change LIMIT/OFFSET to use int8
|
2001-12-06 05:06:40 +08:00
|
|
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* CREATE TABLE AS can not determine column lengths from expressions [atttypmod]
|
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* Allow UPDATE to handle complex aggregates [update]
|
2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
|
|
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* Allow command blocks to ignore certain types of errors
|
2002-04-26 04:39:11 +08:00
|
|
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* Allow backslash handling in quoted strings to be disabled for portability
|
2003-06-24 09:54:57 +08:00
|
|
|
* Allow UPDATE, DELETE to handle table aliases for self-joins [delete]
|
2002-08-27 07:02:21 +08:00
|
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|
* Add CORRESPONDING BY to UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT
|
2002-08-27 22:17:14 +08:00
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|
|
* Allow REINDEX to rebuild all indexes, remove /contrib/reindex
|
2002-12-10 02:09:44 +08:00
|
|
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* Add ROLLUP, CUBE, GROUPING SETS options to GROUP BY
|
2003-02-14 22:41:40 +08:00
|
|
|
* Add schema option to createlang
|
2003-03-08 11:03:49 +08:00
|
|
|
* Allow savepoints / nested transactions [transactions] (Bruce)
|
2003-03-18 02:50:06 +08:00
|
|
|
* Allow UPDATE tab SET ROW (col, ...) = (...) for updating multiple columns
|
2003-06-03 01:26:16 +08:00
|
|
|
* Allow SET CONSTRAINTS to be qualified by schema/table
|
2003-07-22 08:49:22 +08:00
|
|
|
* Prevent COMMENT ON DATABASE from using a database name
|
2003-07-24 02:16:39 +08:00
|
|
|
* Add GUC variable to prevent waiting on locks
|
2003-08-25 06:57:21 +08:00
|
|
|
* Allow TRUNCATE ... CASCADE/RESTRICT
|
2003-08-17 13:23:13 +08:00
|
|
|
* Allow PREPARE of cursors
|
2003-09-24 05:00:18 +08:00
|
|
|
* Allow LISTEN/NOTIFY to store info in memory rather than tables
|
2003-10-09 12:29:40 +08:00
|
|
|
* COMMENT ON [ CAST | CONVERSION | OPERATOR CLASS | LARGE OBJECT | LANGUAGE ]
|
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|
|
(Christopher)
|
2003-10-21 10:48:09 +08:00
|
|
|
* Add optional textual message to NOTIFY
|
2003-10-26 10:57:39 +08:00
|
|
|
* Allow more ISOLATION LEVELS to be accepted, but issue a warning for them
|
2003-11-07 23:31:14 +08:00
|
|
|
* Allow CREATE TABLE foo (f1 INT CHECK (f1 > 0) CHECK (f1 < 10)) to work
|
|
|
|
|
by searching for non-conflicting constraint names, and prefix with table name
|
2003-11-09 08:41:14 +08:00
|
|
|
* Use more reliable method for CREATE DATABASE to get a consistent copy of db
|
2003-11-09 11:41:25 +08:00
|
|
|
* Have psql \dn show only visible schemas using current_schemas()
|
2003-11-09 12:23:50 +08:00
|
|
|
* Have psql '\i ~/<tab><tab>' actually load files it displays from home dir
|
2003-11-12 12:10:43 +08:00
|
|
|
* Ignore temporary tables from other session when processing inheritance
|
2003-11-17 10:05:26 +08:00
|
|
|
* Add GUC setting to make created tables default to WITHOUT OIDS
|
2003-11-09 08:41:14 +08:00
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|
2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
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|
2001-05-11 04:26:45 +08:00
|
|
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* ALTER
|
2001-07-16 13:00:29 +08:00
|
|
|
o ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN does not honor DEFAULT and non-CHECK CONSTRAINT
|
2002-07-31 03:47:09 +08:00
|
|
|
o ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN column DEFAULT should fill existing
|
2001-11-29 23:39:11 +08:00
|
|
|
rows with DEFAULT value
|
2002-09-03 00:21:30 +08:00
|
|
|
o ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN column SERIAL doesn't create sequence because
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|
|
of the item above
|
2003-03-06 10:29:44 +08:00
|
|
|
o Have ALTER TABLE rename SERIAL sequences
|
2003-06-24 09:08:20 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow columns to be reordered using ALTER ... POSITION i col1 [,col2];
|
|
|
|
|
have SELECT * and INSERT honor such ordering
|
2003-06-24 10:53:36 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow ALTER TABLE to modify column lengths and change to binary
|
|
|
|
|
compatible types
|
2003-08-07 07:36:02 +08:00
|
|
|
o Add ALTER DATABASE ... OWNER TO newowner
|
2003-09-05 09:10:07 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... RENAME
|
2003-09-09 06:48:21 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow ALTER TABLE to change constraint deferrability and actions
|
2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
|
|
|
|
2001-01-12 05:07:07 +08:00
|
|
|
* CLUSTER
|
2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
|
|
|
o Automatically maintain clustering on a table
|
|
|
|
|
|
2001-05-11 04:26:45 +08:00
|
|
|
* COPY
|
2001-07-16 13:00:29 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow dump/load of CSV format
|
2002-01-04 02:25:43 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow COPY to report error lines and continue; optionally
|
2002-01-25 06:19:48 +08:00
|
|
|
allow error codes to be specified; requires savepoints or can
|
2002-01-25 06:20:18 +08:00
|
|
|
not be run in a multi-statement transaction
|
2003-06-07 03:46:20 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow COPY to understand \x as hex
|
|
|
|
|
o Have COPY return number of rows loaded/unloaded
|
2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
|
|
|
|
2001-05-11 04:26:45 +08:00
|
|
|
* CURSOR
|
2002-01-25 10:33:39 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF cursor using per-cursor tid
|
Update done items:
< * Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
< number, not just messages (Peter E)
< * Add error codes (Peter E)
< * Make error messages more consistent [error]
> * -Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
> number, not just messages (Tom)
> * -Add error codes (Tom)
> * -Make error messages more consistent
40c40
< * Add GUC log_statement_and_duration to print statement and >= min duration
> * -Add GUC log_statement_and_duration to print statement and >= min duration
84c84
< * Allow current datestyle to restrict dates; prevent month/day swapping
> * -Allow current datestyle to restrict dates; prevent month/day swapping
86c86
< * Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
> * -Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
88c88
< * Delay resolution of array expression type so assignment coercion
> * -Delay resolution of array expression type so assignment coercion
93c93
< o Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
> o -Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
116c116
< * Remove Cyrillic recode support
> * -Remove Cyrillic recode support
144c144
< * Certain indexes will not shrink, e.g. indexes on ever-increasing
> * -Certain indexes will not shrink, e.g. indexes on ever-increasing
185c185
< * Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds in ISO datestyle
> * -Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds in ISO datestyle
196c196
< o -Add ALTER TABLE tab SET WITHOUT OIDS (Rod)
> o --Add ALTER TABLE tab SET WITHOUT OIDS (Rod)
221c221
< stored in the backend
> stored in the backend (Gavin)
235c235
< o Allow EXPLAIN EXECUTE to see prepared plans
> o -Allow EXPLAIN EXECUTE to see prepared plans
241d240
< o Add untrusted version of plpython
265c264
< * Allow psql to show transaction status if backend protocol changes made
> * -Allow psql to show transaction status if backend protocol changes made
272,273c271,272
< * Modify pg_get_triggerdef() to take a boolean to pretty-print,
< and use that as part of pg_dump along with psql
> * -Modify pg_get_triggerdef() to take a boolean to pretty-print,
> and use that as part of pg_dump along with psql
292c291
< o Add SQLSTATE
> o -Add SQLSTATE
296c295
< o Implement SQLDA (do we really need this?)
> o -Implement SQLDA
364d362
< * Allow binding query args over FE/BE protocol
378c376,377
< * Provide automatic running of vacuum in the background (Tom) [vacuum]
> * Provide automatic running of vacuum in the background in backend
> rather than in /contrib [vacuum]
427c426
< * Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
> * -Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
429c428
< * Allow merge and hash joins on expressions not just simple variables (Tom)
> * -Allow merge and hash joins on expressions not just simple variables (Tom)
474c473
< * Remove memory/file descriptor freeing befor elog(ERROR) (Bruce)
> * Remove memory/file descriptor freeing before ereport(ERROR) (Bruce)
489,490c488,489
< o Show transaction status in psql
< o Allow binding of query parameters, support for prepared queries
> o -Show transaction status in psql
> o -Allow binding of query parameters, support for prepared queries
492,494c491,493
< o Remove hard-coded limits on user/db/password names
< o Remove unused elements of startup packet (unused, tty, passlength)
< o Fix COPY/fastpath protocol?
> o -Remove hard-coded limits on user/db/password names
> o -Remove unused elements of startup packet (unused, tty, passlength)
> o -Fix COPY/fastpath protocol
496,497c495
< o Replication support?
< o Error codes
> o -Error codes
500d497
< o ecpg improvements?
503c500
< o Report server version number, database encoding, client encoding
> o -Report server version number, database encoding, client encoding
2003-08-08 10:00:20 +08:00
|
|
|
stored in the backend (Gavin)
|
2001-11-29 13:53:46 +08:00
|
|
|
o Prevent DROP of table being referenced by our own open cursor
|
2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
|
|
|
|
2001-05-11 04:26:45 +08:00
|
|
|
* INSERT
|
2001-07-16 13:00:29 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow INSERT/UPDATE of system-generated oid value for a row
|
|
|
|
|
o Allow INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..)
|
2001-11-23 10:22:04 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING new.col or old.col; handle
|
2001-09-06 08:23:42 +08:00
|
|
|
RULE cases (Philip)
|
2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
|
|
|
|
2001-05-11 04:26:45 +08:00
|
|
|
* SHOW/SET
|
2001-07-16 13:00:29 +08:00
|
|
|
o Add SET PERFORMANCE_TIPS option to suggest INDEX, VACUUM, VACUUM
|
2001-05-11 04:26:45 +08:00
|
|
|
ANALYZE, and CLUSTER
|
2003-10-21 10:48:09 +08:00
|
|
|
o Add SET PATH for schemas
|
2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
|
|
|
|
2001-11-23 10:22:04 +08:00
|
|
|
* SERVER-SIDE LANGUAGES
|
2001-11-23 09:48:38 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow PL/PgSQL's RAISE function to take expressions
|
|
|
|
|
o Change PL/PgSQL to use palloc() instead of malloc()
|
2002-04-18 13:07:38 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow Java server-side programming, http://pljava.sourceforge.net
|
|
|
|
|
[java]
|
2002-03-25 11:37:01 +08:00
|
|
|
o Fix problems with complex temporary table creation/destruction
|
2002-04-19 01:26:03 +08:00
|
|
|
without using PL/PgSQL EXECUTE, needs cache prevention/invalidation
|
2002-04-09 21:46:55 +08:00
|
|
|
o Fix PL/pgSQL RENAME to work on variables other than OLD/NEW
|
2002-08-14 10:49:42 +08:00
|
|
|
o Improve PL/PgSQL exception handling
|
2003-03-08 11:03:49 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow parameters to be specified by name and type during definition
|
2002-08-15 02:39:05 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow function parameters to be passed by name,
|
2002-08-14 10:49:42 +08:00
|
|
|
get_employee_salary(emp_id => 12345, tax_year => 2001)
|
|
|
|
|
o Add PL/PgSQL packages
|
2002-09-02 06:36:11 +08:00
|
|
|
o Add table function support to pltcl, plperl, plpython
|
2003-07-22 03:15:48 +08:00
|
|
|
o Add PL/PHP (Joe, Jan)
|
2003-07-22 09:06:51 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow PL/pgSQL to name columns by ordinal position, e.g. rec.(3)
|
2003-08-02 05:44:05 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow PL/pgSQL EXECUTE query_var INTO record_var;
|
2003-08-09 01:13:02 +08:00
|
|
|
o Add capability to create and call PROCEDURES
|
2003-10-10 07:41:22 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow PL/pgSQL to handle %TYPE arrays, e.g. tab.col%TYPE[]
|
2002-08-14 10:51:13 +08:00
|
|
|
|
2002-10-04 10:28:42 +08:00
|
|
|
|
2002-04-26 04:20:50 +08:00
|
|
|
Clients
|
|
|
|
|
=======
|
1999-07-07 04:41:22 +08:00
|
|
|
|
2003-05-25 02:25:35 +08:00
|
|
|
* Add XML capability to pg_dump and COPY, when backend XML capability
|
2003-08-09 01:13:02 +08:00
|
|
|
* Allow psql \du to show groups, and add \dg for groups
|
2003-08-09 04:31:26 +08:00
|
|
|
* Allow clients to query WITH HOLD cursors and prepared statements
|
2003-08-12 06:39:48 +08:00
|
|
|
* Prevent unneeded quoting in psql \d output using fmtId()
|
2003-08-25 12:10:59 +08:00
|
|
|
* Add a libpq function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability
|
2003-10-10 10:42:09 +08:00
|
|
|
* Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name
|
2003-10-16 12:12:53 +08:00
|
|
|
* Allow pg_dump to dump CREATE CONVERSION (Christopher)
|
2003-10-21 10:48:09 +08:00
|
|
|
* Allow fastpast to pass values in portable format
|
2003-05-25 03:03:21 +08:00
|
|
|
|
2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
|
|
|
|
2001-06-26 12:04:49 +08:00
|
|
|
* JDBC
|
2001-07-16 13:00:29 +08:00
|
|
|
o Comprehensive test suite. This may be available already.
|
|
|
|
|
o JDBC-standard BLOB support
|
|
|
|
|
o Error Codes (pending backend implementation)
|
2002-01-03 13:48:48 +08:00
|
|
|
o Support both 'make' and 'ant'
|
2001-11-26 14:08:03 +08:00
|
|
|
o Fix LargeObject API to handle OIDs as unsigned ints
|
|
|
|
|
o Use cursors implicitly to avoid large results (see setCursorName())
|
2002-02-26 02:48:54 +08:00
|
|
|
o Add LISTEN/NOTIFY support to the JDBC driver (Barry)
|
2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
|
|
|
|
2001-10-31 09:56:55 +08:00
|
|
|
* ECPG
|
2003-06-15 18:34:10 +08:00
|
|
|
o Docs
|
2001-11-02 04:06:59 +08:00
|
|
|
o Implement set descriptor, using descriptor
|
2001-10-31 23:11:08 +08:00
|
|
|
o Solve cardinality > 1 for input descriptors / variables
|
2001-11-02 04:06:59 +08:00
|
|
|
o Improve error handling
|
|
|
|
|
o Add a semantic check level, e.g. check if a table really exists
|
2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
|
|
|
o fix handling of DB attributes that are arrays
|
2003-06-15 18:34:10 +08:00
|
|
|
o Use backend prepare/execute facility for ecpg where possible
|
2003-08-09 02:55:35 +08:00
|
|
|
o Implement SQLDA
|
2003-06-15 18:34:10 +08:00
|
|
|
o Fix nested C comments
|
|
|
|
|
o sqlwarn[6] should be 'W' if the PRECISION or SCALE value specified
|
1999-06-07 10:42:07 +08:00
|
|
|
|
2002-12-02 13:42:36 +08:00
|
|
|
* Python
|
2003-03-06 10:29:44 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow users to register their own types with pg_
|
2002-12-02 13:42:36 +08:00
|
|
|
o Allow SELECT to return a dictionary of dictionaries
|
|
|
|
|
o Allow COPY BINARY FROM
|
|
|
|
|
|
2002-02-04 03:24:30 +08:00
|
|
|
|
2002-04-26 04:20:50 +08:00
|
|
|
Referential Integrity
|
|
|
|
|
=====================
|
2000-04-29 03:15:49 +08:00
|
|
|
|
2001-11-28 03:35:38 +08:00
|
|
|
* Add MATCH PARTIAL referential integrity [foreign]
|
2000-06-11 06:12:18 +08:00
|
|
|
* Add deferred trigger queue file (Jan)
|
2003-07-31 23:07:17 +08:00
|
|
|
* Implement dirty reads or shared row locks and use them in RI triggers
|
2001-01-12 13:23:10 +08:00
|
|
|
* Enforce referential integrity for system tables
|
2001-05-11 01:29:55 +08:00
|
|
|
* Change foreign key constraint for array -> element to mean element
|
2001-09-23 12:08:38 +08:00
|
|
|
in array
|
2002-06-07 12:19:52 +08:00
|
|
|
* Allow DEFERRABLE UNIQUE constraints
|
2002-08-27 04:02:45 +08:00
|
|
|
* Allow triggers to be disabled [trigger]
|
2003-05-24 09:27:41 +08:00
|
|
|
* With disabled triggers, allow pg_dump to use ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY
|
2003-10-21 10:48:09 +08:00
|
|
|
* Allow statement-level triggers to access modified rows
|
2002-11-24 11:14:01 +08:00
|
|
|
* Support triggers on columns (Neil)
|
2003-07-22 03:04:54 +08:00
|
|
|
* Have AFTER triggers execute after the appropriate SQL statement in a
|
|
|
|
|
function, not at the end of the function
|
2003-09-05 08:50:40 +08:00
|
|
|
* Print table names with constraint names in error messages, or make constraint
|
|
|
|
|
names unique within a schema
|
2003-09-11 04:17:21 +08:00
|
|
|
* Issue NOTICE if foreign key data type doesn't match primary key
|
2003-10-09 06:29:58 +08:00
|
|
|
* Remove CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER
|
2003-09-11 04:17:21 +08:00
|
|
|
|
2002-08-14 10:51:13 +08:00
|
|
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2002-04-26 04:20:50 +08:00
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Dependency Checking
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===================
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2001-07-16 13:00:29 +08:00
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2002-02-05 04:46:36 +08:00
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* Flush cached query plans when their underlying catalog data changes
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2002-08-17 23:09:41 +08:00
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* Use dependency information to dump data in proper order
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2003-09-10 08:03:23 +08:00
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* Have pg_dump -c clear the database using dependency information
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2002-02-04 03:24:30 +08:00
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2002-04-18 04:35:23 +08:00
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2002-04-26 04:20:50 +08:00
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Exotic Features
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===============
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1999-07-09 11:28:53 +08:00
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2002-12-06 04:30:36 +08:00
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* Add SQL99 WITH clause to SELECT (Tom, Fernando)
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* Add SQL99 WITH RECURSIVE to SELECT (Tom, Fernando)
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2001-12-30 01:56:46 +08:00
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* Allow queries across multiple databases [crossdb]
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2001-05-11 04:26:45 +08:00
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* Add pre-parsing phase that converts non-ANSI features to supported features
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2001-07-21 00:14:55 +08:00
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* Allow plug-in modules to emulate features from other databases
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2001-05-17 08:10:08 +08:00
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* SQL*Net listener that makes PostgreSQL appear as an Oracle database
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2000-09-30 10:20:53 +08:00
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to clients
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2003-10-09 05:44:06 +08:00
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* Add two-phase commit to all distributed transactions with
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offline/readonly server status or administrator notification for failure
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1999-07-09 11:28:53 +08:00
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2001-07-10 05:32:06 +08:00
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1996-10-04 23:15:24 +08:00
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PERFORMANCE
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2002-02-04 03:24:30 +08:00
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===========
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1999-07-07 04:41:22 +08:00
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2002-04-26 04:20:50 +08:00
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Fsync
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1999-07-07 04:41:22 +08:00
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2001-03-01 02:07:15 +08:00
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* Delay fsync() when other backends are about to commit too [fsync]
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2001-07-16 13:00:29 +08:00
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o Determine optimal commit_delay value
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2001-03-21 04:31:07 +08:00
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* Determine optimal fdatasync/fsync, O_SYNC/O_DSYNC options
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2001-07-16 13:00:29 +08:00
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o Allow multiple blocks to be written to WAL with one write()
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1999-06-07 10:42:07 +08:00
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1999-07-07 04:41:22 +08:00
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2002-04-26 04:20:50 +08:00
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Cache
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=====
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1997-10-17 22:30:26 +08:00
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* Shared catalog cache, reduce lseek()'s by caching table size in shared area
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2003-11-12 08:25:35 +08:00
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* Add free-behind capability for large sequential scans (fadvise)
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2002-01-05 12:03:47 +08:00
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* Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching
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2002-01-05 05:32:28 +08:00
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* Make blind writes go through the file descriptor cache
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2003-02-14 21:11:44 +08:00
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* Cache last known per-tuple offsets to speed long tuple access
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2003-06-29 02:05:12 +08:00
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* Automatically place fixed-width, NOT NULL columns first in a table
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2003-10-05 02:19:57 +08:00
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* Use a fixed row count and a +/- count with MVCC visibility rules
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2003-10-10 09:52:15 +08:00
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to allow fast COUNT(*) queries with no WHERE clause(?) [count]
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1999-06-07 10:42:07 +08:00
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2002-02-04 03:24:30 +08:00
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2002-04-26 04:20:50 +08:00
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Vacuum
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======
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2001-03-01 02:07:15 +08:00
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* Improve speed with indexes (perhaps recreate index instead) [vacuum]
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* Reduce lock time by moving tuples with read lock, then write
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lock and truncate table [vacuum]
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Update done items:
< * Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
< number, not just messages (Peter E)
< * Add error codes (Peter E)
< * Make error messages more consistent [error]
> * -Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
> number, not just messages (Tom)
> * -Add error codes (Tom)
> * -Make error messages more consistent
40c40
< * Add GUC log_statement_and_duration to print statement and >= min duration
> * -Add GUC log_statement_and_duration to print statement and >= min duration
84c84
< * Allow current datestyle to restrict dates; prevent month/day swapping
> * -Allow current datestyle to restrict dates; prevent month/day swapping
86c86
< * Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
> * -Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
88c88
< * Delay resolution of array expression type so assignment coercion
> * -Delay resolution of array expression type so assignment coercion
93c93
< o Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
> o -Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
116c116
< * Remove Cyrillic recode support
> * -Remove Cyrillic recode support
144c144
< * Certain indexes will not shrink, e.g. indexes on ever-increasing
> * -Certain indexes will not shrink, e.g. indexes on ever-increasing
185c185
< * Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds in ISO datestyle
> * -Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds in ISO datestyle
196c196
< o -Add ALTER TABLE tab SET WITHOUT OIDS (Rod)
> o --Add ALTER TABLE tab SET WITHOUT OIDS (Rod)
221c221
< stored in the backend
> stored in the backend (Gavin)
235c235
< o Allow EXPLAIN EXECUTE to see prepared plans
> o -Allow EXPLAIN EXECUTE to see prepared plans
241d240
< o Add untrusted version of plpython
265c264
< * Allow psql to show transaction status if backend protocol changes made
> * -Allow psql to show transaction status if backend protocol changes made
272,273c271,272
< * Modify pg_get_triggerdef() to take a boolean to pretty-print,
< and use that as part of pg_dump along with psql
> * -Modify pg_get_triggerdef() to take a boolean to pretty-print,
> and use that as part of pg_dump along with psql
292c291
< o Add SQLSTATE
> o -Add SQLSTATE
296c295
< o Implement SQLDA (do we really need this?)
> o -Implement SQLDA
364d362
< * Allow binding query args over FE/BE protocol
378c376,377
< * Provide automatic running of vacuum in the background (Tom) [vacuum]
> * Provide automatic running of vacuum in the background in backend
> rather than in /contrib [vacuum]
427c426
< * Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
> * -Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
429c428
< * Allow merge and hash joins on expressions not just simple variables (Tom)
> * -Allow merge and hash joins on expressions not just simple variables (Tom)
474c473
< * Remove memory/file descriptor freeing befor elog(ERROR) (Bruce)
> * Remove memory/file descriptor freeing before ereport(ERROR) (Bruce)
489,490c488,489
< o Show transaction status in psql
< o Allow binding of query parameters, support for prepared queries
> o -Show transaction status in psql
> o -Allow binding of query parameters, support for prepared queries
492,494c491,493
< o Remove hard-coded limits on user/db/password names
< o Remove unused elements of startup packet (unused, tty, passlength)
< o Fix COPY/fastpath protocol?
> o -Remove hard-coded limits on user/db/password names
> o -Remove unused elements of startup packet (unused, tty, passlength)
> o -Fix COPY/fastpath protocol
496,497c495
< o Replication support?
< o Error codes
> o -Error codes
500d497
< o ecpg improvements?
503c500
< o Report server version number, database encoding, client encoding
> o -Report server version number, database encoding, client encoding
2003-08-08 10:00:20 +08:00
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* Provide automatic running of vacuum in the background in backend
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rather than in /contrib [vacuum]
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2002-08-28 00:19:46 +08:00
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* Allow free space map to be auto-sized or warn when it is too small
|
2003-09-05 10:51:55 +08:00
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* Maintain a map of recently-expired of pages so vacuum can reclaim
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free space without a sequential scan
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2003-10-10 03:36:27 +08:00
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* Have VACUUM FULL use REINDEX rather than index vacuum
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2002-04-18 04:35:23 +08:00
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2002-09-05 06:09:47 +08:00
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2002-04-26 04:20:50 +08:00
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Locking
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=======
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2002-01-23 04:50:35 +08:00
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* Make locking of shared data structures more fine-grained
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* Add code to detect an SMP machine and handle spinlocks accordingly
|
2002-01-23 06:22:34 +08:00
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from distributted.net, http://www1.distributed.net/source,
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in client/common/cpucheck.cpp
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2002-01-23 04:50:35 +08:00
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* Research use of sched_yield() for spinlock acquisition failure
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2002-02-04 03:24:30 +08:00
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2002-04-26 04:20:50 +08:00
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Startup Time
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============
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1999-07-07 04:41:22 +08:00
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2001-05-11 04:26:45 +08:00
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* Experiment with multi-threaded backend [thread]
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2000-10-12 02:09:38 +08:00
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* Add connection pooling [pool]
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2000-11-28 05:16:10 +08:00
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* Allow persistent backends [persistent]
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Update TODO list.
Index: TODO
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/TODO,v
retrieving revision 1.311
diff -r1.311 TODO
3c3
< Last updated: Tue Jan 2 21:23:11 EST 2001
---
> Last updated: Wed Jan 3 01:56:41 EST 2001
10c10
< A dash(-) marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 7.1 release.
---
> A dash (-) marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 7.1 release.
23c23
< * -Creating index of TIMESTAMP & RELTIME fails, or rename to DATETIME(Thomas)
---
> * -Creating index of TIMESTAMP & RELTIME fails, or rename to DATETIME (Thomas)
35c35
< * -Views containing aggregates sometimes fail(Jan)
---
> * -Views containing aggregates sometimes fail (Jan)
37,38c37,38
< duplicates(inherit)
< * -Disallow LOCK on view(Mark Hollomon)
---
> duplicates (inherit)
> * -Disallow LOCK on view (Mark Hollomon)
58,60c58,60
< * -Add OUTER joins, left and right[outer](Tom, Thomas)
< * -Allow long tuples by chaining or auto-storing outside db (TOAST)(Jan)
< * Fix memory leak for expressions[memory](Tom?)
---
> * -Add OUTER joins, left and right[outer] (Tom, Thomas)
> * -Allow long tuples by chaining or auto-storing outside db (TOAST) (Jan)
> * Fix memory leak for expressions[memory] (Tom?)
70c70
< * Allow row re-use without vacuum(Vadim)
---
> * Allow row re-use without vacuum (Vadim)
74c74
< * More access control over who can create tables and use locks(Karel)
---
> * More access control over who can create tables and use locks (Karel)
92c92
< o -Fix large object mapping scheme, own typeid or reltype(Peter)
---
> o -Fix large object mapping scheme, own typeid or reltype (Peter)
97c97
< * Fix improper masking of some inet/cidr types [cidr]
---
> * -Fix improper masking of some inet/cidr types [cidr]
113c113
< * Get BIT type working
---
> * -Get BIT type working
119c119
< * Update macaddr manufacturer numbers, or remove the function macaddr_manuf()
---
> * -Update macaddr manufacturer numbers, or remove the function macaddr_manuf()
147c147
< * -Add ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN feature(Peter E)
---
> * -Add ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN feature (Peter E)
157c157
< * Auto-destroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL(Ryan)
---
> * Auto-destroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL (Ryan)
166a167
> * Allow INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..)
172d172
< * Allow INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..)
176c176
< * Make NULL's come out at the beginning or end depending on the
---
> * Make NULL's come out at the beginning or end depending on the
220c220
< * Certain indexes will not shrink, i.e. oid indexes with many inserts(Vadim)
---
> * Certain indexes will not shrink, i.e. oid indexes with many inserts (Vadim)
226c226
< with after-row images(Vadim) [logging](Vadim)
---
> with after-row images (Vadim) [logging]
232c232
< * -Redesign the function call interface to handle NULLs better[function](Tom)
---
> * -Redesign the function call interface to handle NULLs better[function] (Tom)
239c239
< * Encrpyt passwords in pg_shadow table using MD5(Vince)
---
> * Encrpyt passwords in pg_shadow table using MD5 (Vince)
298a299,300
> * Create a transaction processor to aid in persistent connections and
> connection pooling
307c309
< * Remove SET KSQO option now that OR processing is improved(Tom)
---
> * Remove SET KSQO option now that OR processing is improved (Tom)
2001-01-03 14:56:52 +08:00
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* Create a transaction processor to aid in persistent connections and
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connection pooling
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2002-01-23 04:50:35 +08:00
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* Do listen() in postmaster and accept() in pre-forked backend
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* Have pre-forked backend pre-connect to last requested database or pass
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file descriptor to backend pre-forked for matching database
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2002-02-04 03:24:30 +08:00
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2002-01-23 04:50:35 +08:00
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2002-04-26 04:20:50 +08:00
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Write-Ahead Log
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===============
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2002-01-23 04:50:35 +08:00
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2001-12-21 11:55:45 +08:00
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* Have after-change WAL write()'s write only modified data to kernel
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* Reduce number of after-change WAL writes; they exist only to gaurd against
|
2002-08-27 07:13:37 +08:00
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partial page writes [wal]
|
2001-12-21 11:55:45 +08:00
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* Turn off after-change writes if fsync is disabled (?)
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2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
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* Add WAL index reliability improvement to non-btree indexes
|
2002-01-24 00:14:04 +08:00
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* Find proper defaults for postgresql.conf WAL entries
|
2002-08-23 11:10:15 +08:00
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* Allow xlog directory location to be specified during initdb, perhaps
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using symlinks
|
2003-02-18 13:15:51 +08:00
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* Allow WAL information to recover corrupted pg_controldata
|
2003-05-24 23:33:46 +08:00
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* Find a way to reduce rotational delay when repeatedly writing
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last WAL page
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2002-02-04 03:24:30 +08:00
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2002-08-23 11:10:44 +08:00
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2002-04-26 04:20:50 +08:00
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Optimizer / Executor
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====================
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2002-01-23 04:50:35 +08:00
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2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
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* Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc. [optimizer]
|
2002-01-27 12:20:38 +08:00
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* Allow ORDER BY ... LIMIT to select top values without sort or index
|
2002-04-18 12:07:04 +08:00
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using a sequential scan for highest/lowest values (Oleg)
|
2003-03-08 12:23:05 +08:00
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* Precompile SQL functions to avoid overhead (Neil)
|
2002-04-18 05:52:57 +08:00
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* Add utility to compute accurate random_page_cost value
|
2002-04-24 04:26:29 +08:00
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* Improve ability to display optimizer analysis using OPTIMIZER_DEBUG
|
2002-07-31 03:34:05 +08:00
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* Use CHECK constraints to improve optimizer decisions
|
2002-10-04 03:20:25 +08:00
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* Check GUC geqo_threshold to see if it is still accurate
|
2002-10-05 12:00:26 +08:00
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* Allow sorting, temp files, temp tables to use multiple work directories
|
2003-06-03 02:42:31 +08:00
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* Improve the planner to use CHECK constraints to prune the plan (for subtables)
|
2003-09-11 04:14:42 +08:00
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* Have EXPLAIN ANALYZE highlight poor optimizer estimates
|
2002-08-14 10:51:13 +08:00
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2002-10-04 10:28:42 +08:00
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2002-04-26 04:20:50 +08:00
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Miscellaneous
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=============
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2002-01-23 04:50:35 +08:00
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* Do async I/O for faster random read-ahead of data
|
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* Use mmap() rather than SYSV shared memory or to write WAL files (?) [mmap]
|
2002-02-20 05:36:58 +08:00
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* Improve caching of attribute offsets when NULLs exist in the row
|
2003-02-18 10:49:30 +08:00
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* Add a script to ask system configuration questions and tune postgresql.conf
|
2003-06-03 02:42:31 +08:00
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* Allow partitioning of table into multiple subtables
|
2003-10-09 03:33:53 +08:00
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* Use background process to write dirty shared buffers to disk
|
2002-08-14 10:51:13 +08:00
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2003-07-22 09:06:51 +08:00
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2002-04-26 04:20:50 +08:00
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Source Code
|
2002-02-04 03:24:30 +08:00
|
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===========
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|
1999-11-10 09:22:37 +08:00
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* Add use of 'const' for variables in source tree
|
2001-03-21 06:04:59 +08:00
|
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|
* Rename some /contrib modules from pg* to pg_*
|
2001-11-23 10:22:04 +08:00
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* Move some things from /contrib into main tree
|
2001-03-26 05:41:52 +08:00
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* Remove warnings created by -Wcast-align
|
2001-03-29 08:12:57 +08:00
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* Move platform-specific ps status display info from ps_status.c to ports
|
2001-12-29 02:31:14 +08:00
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* Improve access-permissions check on data directory in Cygwin (Tom)
|
2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
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* Add documentation for perl, including mention of DBI/DBD perl location
|
2003-06-26 05:56:55 +08:00
|
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* Create improved PostgreSQL introductory documentation for the PHP
|
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manuals (Rory)
|
2002-01-23 05:55:06 +08:00
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* Add optional CRC checksum to heap and index pages
|
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* Change representation of whole-tuple parameters to functions
|
2002-02-20 06:41:29 +08:00
|
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* Clarify use of 'application' and 'command' tags in SGML docs
|
2002-02-22 09:28:15 +08:00
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* Better document ability to build only certain interfaces (Marc)
|
2002-02-22 08:10:11 +08:00
|
|
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* Remove or relicense modules that are not under the BSD license, if possible
|
Update done items:
< * Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
< number, not just messages (Peter E)
< * Add error codes (Peter E)
< * Make error messages more consistent [error]
> * -Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
> number, not just messages (Tom)
> * -Add error codes (Tom)
> * -Make error messages more consistent
40c40
< * Add GUC log_statement_and_duration to print statement and >= min duration
> * -Add GUC log_statement_and_duration to print statement and >= min duration
84c84
< * Allow current datestyle to restrict dates; prevent month/day swapping
> * -Allow current datestyle to restrict dates; prevent month/day swapping
86c86
< * Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
> * -Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
88c88
< * Delay resolution of array expression type so assignment coercion
> * -Delay resolution of array expression type so assignment coercion
93c93
< o Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
> o -Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
116c116
< * Remove Cyrillic recode support
> * -Remove Cyrillic recode support
144c144
< * Certain indexes will not shrink, e.g. indexes on ever-increasing
> * -Certain indexes will not shrink, e.g. indexes on ever-increasing
185c185
< * Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds in ISO datestyle
> * -Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds in ISO datestyle
196c196
< o -Add ALTER TABLE tab SET WITHOUT OIDS (Rod)
> o --Add ALTER TABLE tab SET WITHOUT OIDS (Rod)
221c221
< stored in the backend
> stored in the backend (Gavin)
235c235
< o Allow EXPLAIN EXECUTE to see prepared plans
> o -Allow EXPLAIN EXECUTE to see prepared plans
241d240
< o Add untrusted version of plpython
265c264
< * Allow psql to show transaction status if backend protocol changes made
> * -Allow psql to show transaction status if backend protocol changes made
272,273c271,272
< * Modify pg_get_triggerdef() to take a boolean to pretty-print,
< and use that as part of pg_dump along with psql
> * -Modify pg_get_triggerdef() to take a boolean to pretty-print,
> and use that as part of pg_dump along with psql
292c291
< o Add SQLSTATE
> o -Add SQLSTATE
296c295
< o Implement SQLDA (do we really need this?)
> o -Implement SQLDA
364d362
< * Allow binding query args over FE/BE protocol
378c376,377
< * Provide automatic running of vacuum in the background (Tom) [vacuum]
> * Provide automatic running of vacuum in the background in backend
> rather than in /contrib [vacuum]
427c426
< * Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
> * -Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
429c428
< * Allow merge and hash joins on expressions not just simple variables (Tom)
> * -Allow merge and hash joins on expressions not just simple variables (Tom)
474c473
< * Remove memory/file descriptor freeing befor elog(ERROR) (Bruce)
> * Remove memory/file descriptor freeing before ereport(ERROR) (Bruce)
489,490c488,489
< o Show transaction status in psql
< o Allow binding of query parameters, support for prepared queries
> o -Show transaction status in psql
> o -Allow binding of query parameters, support for prepared queries
492,494c491,493
< o Remove hard-coded limits on user/db/password names
< o Remove unused elements of startup packet (unused, tty, passlength)
< o Fix COPY/fastpath protocol?
> o -Remove hard-coded limits on user/db/password names
> o -Remove unused elements of startup packet (unused, tty, passlength)
> o -Fix COPY/fastpath protocol
496,497c495
< o Replication support?
< o Error codes
> o -Error codes
500d497
< o ecpg improvements?
503c500
< o Report server version number, database encoding, client encoding
> o -Report server version number, database encoding, client encoding
2003-08-08 10:00:20 +08:00
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* Remove memory/file descriptor freeing before ereport(ERROR) (Bruce)
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2002-11-02 13:42:01 +08:00
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* Acquire lock on a relation before building a relcache entry for it
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2002-11-08 12:31:14 +08:00
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* Research interaction of setitimer() and sleep() used by statement_timeout
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2003-06-06 23:56:14 +08:00
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* Add checks for fclose() failure
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< * -Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
< number, not just messages (Tom)
< * -Add error codes (Tom)
< * -Make error messages more consistent
40d35
< * -Add GUC log_statement_and_duration to print statement and >= min duration
51d45
< * -Allow easy display of usernames in a group
53d46
< * -Add start time to pg_stat_activity
55d47
< * -Have standalone backend read postgresql.conf (Tom)
59d50
< * -Allow CIDR format to be used in pg_hba.conf
74d64
< * -Add IPv6 capability to INET/CIDR types
77d66
< * -Change NUMERIC data type to use base 10,000 internally
82d70
< * -Add GUC variables to control floating number output digits (Pedro Ferreira)
90,92d77
< * -Allow current datestyle to restrict dates; prevent month/day swapping
< from making invalid dates valid
< * -Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
102d86
< o -Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
104d87
< o -Support construction of array result values in expressions (Joe)
128d110
< * -Remove Cyrillic recode support
146,147d127
< * -Allow CREATE INDEX zman_index ON test (date_trunc( 'day', zman ) datetime_ops)
< fails index can't store constant parameters
155d134
< * -Add btree index support for reltime, tinterval, regproc (Tom)
157d135
< * -Certain indexes will not shrink, e.g. indexes on ever-increasing
161d138
< * -Allow LIKE indexing optimization for non-ASCII locales using special index
173d149
< * -Improve concurrency of hash indexes (Tom)
181d156
< * -Allow LIMIT/OFFSET to use expressions (Tom)
187d161
< * -Return proper effected tuple count from complex commands [return]
191d164
< * -Make a transaction-safe TRUNCATE (Rod)
196,197d168
< * -Allow UPDATE to use SET col = DEFAULT
< * -Add config variable to prevent auto-adding missing FROM-clause tables
199d169
< * -Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds in ISO datestyle
224,225d193
< o -Add ALTER TABLE tab SET WITHOUT OIDS (Rod)
< o -Add ALTER SEQUENCE to modify min/max/increment/cache/cycle values
237d204
< o -Allow CLUSTER to cluster all tables (Alvaro Herrera)
248d214
< o -MOVE 0 should not move to end of cursor (Bruce)
252d217
< o -Allow cursors outside transactions
264,265d228
< o -Allow EXPLAIN EXECUTE to see prepared plans
< o -Allow SHOW of some non-modifiable variables, like pg_controldata
280d242
< o -Allow array declarations and other data types in PL/PgSQL DECLARE
282,283d243
< o -Make PL/PgSQL %TYPE schema-aware
< o -Allow PL/PgSQL to support array element assignment (Joe)
294,298d253
< * -Allow psql to show transaction status if backend protocol changes made
< * -Add schema, cast, and conversion backslash commands to psql (Christopher)
< * -Allow pg_dump to dump a specific schema (Neil Conway)
< * -Allow psql to do table completion for SELECT * FROM schema_part and
< table completion for SELECT * FROM schema_name.
300,302d254
< * -Allow SSL-enabled clients to turn off SSL transfers
< * -Modify pg_get_triggerdef() to take a boolean to pretty-print,
< and use that as part of pg_dump along with psql
327d278
< o -Add SQLSTATE
330d280
< o -Make casts work in variable initializations
334,336d283
< o -Allow multi-threaded use of SQLCA
< o -Understand structure definitions outside a declare section
< o -Allow :var[:index] or :var[<integer>] as cvariable for an array var
356d302
< * -Support statement-level triggers (Neil)
460,461d405
< * -Add checkpoint_min_warning postgresql.conf option to warn about checkpoints
< that are too frequent (Bruce)
472,476d415
< * -Improve Subplan list handling
< * -Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
< * -Add hash for evaluating GROUP BY aggregates (Tom)
< * -Allow merge and hash joins on expressions not just simple variables (Tom)
< * -Make IN/NOT IN have similar performance to EXISTS/NOT EXISTS (Tom)
480d418
< * -Inline simple SQL functions to avoid overhead (Tom)
495d432
< * -Get faster regex() code from Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.utoronto.ca>
511,512d447
< * -Modify regression tests to prevent failures do to minor numeric rounding
< * -Add OpenBSD's getpeereid() call for local socket authentication
537,542d471
< o -Show transaction status in psql
< o -Allow binding of query parameters, support for prepared queries
< o -Remove hard-coded limits on user/db/password names
< o -Remove unused elements of startup packet (unused, tty, passlength)
< o -Fix COPY/fastpath protocol
< o -Error codes
544d472
< o -Special passing of binary values in platform-neutral format (bytea?)
547d474
< o -Report server version number, database encoding, client encoding
2003-11-20 01:34:01 +08:00
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2003-06-23 12:31:25 +08:00
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* Exit postmaster if postgresql.conf can not be opened
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2003-06-24 10:54:23 +08:00
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* Rename /scripts directory because they are all C programs now
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2003-06-24 11:40:09 +08:00
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* Allow the regression tests to start postmaster with -i so the tests
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2003-06-25 10:43:54 +08:00
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* Allow creation of a libpq-only tarball
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2003-06-26 05:40:48 +08:00
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* Promote debug_query_string into a server-side function current_query()
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2003-06-26 05:42:07 +08:00
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* Allow the identifier length to be increased via a configure option
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2003-06-25 10:43:54 +08:00
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2002-03-08 12:33:53 +08:00
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2003-02-18 10:49:30 +08:00
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* Wire Protocol Changes
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2003-05-25 12:44:41 +08:00
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* Barry is Barry Lind <barry@xythos.com>
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2001-07-16 13:00:29 +08:00
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* Billy is Billy G. Allie <Bill.Allie@mug.org>
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2002-12-25 06:06:53 +08:00
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* Bruce is Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> of Software Research Assoc.
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* Christopher is Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> of
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Family Health Network
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* D'Arcy is D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net> of The Cain Gang Ltd.
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* Dave is Dave Cramer <dave@fastcrypt.com>
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2001-07-16 13:00:29 +08:00
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* Edmund is Edmund Mergl <E.Mergl@bawue.de>
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2003-08-02 06:18:15 +08:00
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* Fernando is Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com> of Red Hat
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* Gavin is Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au> of Alcove Systems Engineering
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* Greg is Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>
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2001-07-16 13:00:29 +08:00
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* Hiroshi is Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>
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* Karel is Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
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2002-12-25 06:06:53 +08:00
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* Jan is Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> of PeerDirect Corp.
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* Liam is Liam Stewart <liams@redhat.com> of Red Hat
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* Marc is Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> of PostgreSQL, Inc.
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2001-07-16 13:00:29 +08:00
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* Mark is Mark Hollomon <mhh@mindspring.com>
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2002-12-25 06:06:53 +08:00
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* Michael is Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> of Credativ
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2002-10-29 04:05:18 +08:00
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* Neil is Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
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* Oleg is Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
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* Peter M is Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk> of Retep Software
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2002-06-11 00:13:54 +08:00
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* Peter E is Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
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* Philip is Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> of Albatross Consulting Pty. Ltd.
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* Rod is Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>
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* Ross is Ross J. Reedstrom <reedstrm@wallace.ece.rice.edu>
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* Stephan is Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
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* Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> of Software Research Assoc.
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* Thomas is Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org> of Jet Propulsion Labratory
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* Tom is Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> of Red Hat
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