diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index 88a78be4988..7468eeee0e6 100644
--- a/doc/TODO
+++ b/doc/TODO
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 TODO list for PostgreSQL
 ========================
-Last updated:		Sat Oct  4 14:19:54 EDT 2003
+Last updated:		Wed Oct  8 15:33:48 EDT 2003
 
 Current maintainer:	Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
 
@@ -477,6 +477,7 @@ Miscellaneous
 * Improve caching of attribute offsets when NULLs exist in the row
 * Add a script to ask system configuration questions and tune postgresql.conf
 * Allow partitioning of table into multiple subtables
+* Use background process to write dirty shared buffers to disk
 
 
 Source Code
@@ -502,7 +503,7 @@ Source Code
 * Acquire lock on a relation before building a relcache entry for it
 * Research interaction of setitimer() and sleep() used by statement_timeout
 * Add checks for fclose() failure
-* Change CVS $Id: TODO,v 1.1142 2003/10/04 18:19:57 momjian Exp $ to $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/TODO,v 1.1142 2003/10/04 18:19:57 momjian Exp $
+* Change CVS $Id: TODO,v 1.1143 2003/10/08 19:33:53 momjian Exp $ to $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/TODO,v 1.1143 2003/10/08 19:33:53 momjian Exp $
 * Exit postmaster if postgresql.conf can not be opened
 * Rename /scripts directory because they are all C programs now
 * Allow the regression tests to start postmaster with -i so the tests