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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2006-08-31 00:34:34 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2006-08-31 00:34:34 +0000
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< Last updated: Tue Aug 29 12:21:52 EDT 2006 > Last updated: Wed Aug 30 20:34:28 EDT 2006 < o Allow COPY (SELECT ...) TO 'filename' < < COPY should also be able to output views using COPY (SELECT < * FROM view) TO 'filename' internally. < http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-09/msg00148.php > o -Allow COPY (SELECT ...) TO 'filename'
-rw-r--r--doc/TODO10
-rw-r--r--doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html65
2 files changed, 34 insertions, 41 deletions
diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index 954792e4051..7c51836407f 100644
--- a/doc/TODO
+++ b/doc/TODO
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-
+c
PostgreSQL TODO List
====================
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us)
-Last updated: Tue Aug 29 12:21:52 EDT 2006
+Last updated: Wed Aug 30 20:34:28 EDT 2006
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
@@ -612,11 +612,7 @@ SQL Commands
the table at the same time, which is something that is
currently allowed.
- o Allow COPY (SELECT ...) TO 'filename'
-
- COPY should also be able to output views using COPY (SELECT
- * FROM view) TO 'filename' internally.
- http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-09/msg00148.php
+ o -Allow COPY (SELECT ...) TO 'filename'
* GRANT/REVOKE
diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
index 53adcea4d21..56bfc186800 100644
--- a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
+++ b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
@@ -2,14 +2,16 @@
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
-<title>PostgreSQL TODO List</title>
+<title>c</title>
<meta name="generator" content="HTML::TextToHTML v2.25"/>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#FF0000" vlink="#A00000" alink="#0000FF">
-<h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>
-<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:bruce@momjian.us">bruce@momjian.us</a>)<br/>
-Last updated: Tue Aug 29 12:21:52 EDT 2006
-</p>
+<p>c<br/>
+PostgreSQL TODO List
+</p><hr/>
+Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:bruce@momjian.us">bruce@momjian.us</a>)<br/>
+Last updated: Wed Aug 30 20:34:28 EDT 2006
+
<p>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<br/>
<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html</a>.
</p>
@@ -22,7 +24,7 @@ Last updated: Tue Aug 29 12:21:52 EDT 2006
you would like to work on an item, please read the Developer's FAQ<br/>
first.
</p>
-<h1><a name="section_2">Administration</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_1">Administration</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>-<em>Make postmater and postgres options distinct so the postmaster -o</em>
@@ -150,7 +152,7 @@ first.
</li><li>Allow the PITR process to be debugged and data examined
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_3">Monitoring</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_2">Monitoring</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Allow server log information to be output as INSERT statements
@@ -161,7 +163,7 @@ first.
</li><li>-<em>Allow server logs to be remotely read and removed using SQL commands</em>
</li><li>-<em>Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged, if text mode</em>
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_4">Data Types</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_3">Data Types</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Improve the MONEY data type
@@ -296,7 +298,7 @@ first.
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_5">Functions</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_4">Functions</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Allow INET subnet tests using non-constants to be indexed
@@ -339,7 +341,7 @@ first.
</li><li>Add SPI_gettypmod() to return the typemod for a TupleDesc
</li><li>Allow inlining of set-returning functions
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_6">Multi-Language Support</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_5">Multi-Language Support</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Add NCHAR (as distinguished from ordinary varchar),
@@ -370,7 +372,7 @@ first.
<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-11/msg00173.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-11/msg00173.php</a>
</p>
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_7">Views / Rules</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_6">Views / Rules</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Automatically create rules on views so they are updateable, per SQL99
@@ -386,7 +388,7 @@ first.
are added after the view is created.
</p>
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_8">SQL Commands</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_7">SQL Commands</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>-<em>Change LIMIT/OFFSET and FETCH/MOVE to use int8</em>
@@ -557,12 +559,7 @@ first.
the table at the same time, which is something that is
currently allowed.
</p>
- </li><li>Allow COPY (SELECT ...) TO 'filename'
-<p> COPY should also be able to output views using COPY (SELECT
- </p><ul>
- <li>FROM view) TO 'filename' internally.
- <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-09/msg00148.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-09/msg00148.php</a>
- </li></ul>
+ </li><li>-<em>Allow COPY (SELECT ...) TO 'filename'</em>
</li></ul>
</li><li>GRANT/REVOKE
<ul>
@@ -685,7 +682,7 @@ first.
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_9">Clients</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_8">Clients</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>-<em>Have initdb set the input DateStyle (MDY or DMY) based on locale</em>
@@ -794,7 +791,7 @@ first.
</p>
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_10">Triggers</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_9">Triggers</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Add deferred trigger queue file
<p> Right now all deferred trigger information is stored in backend
@@ -822,7 +819,7 @@ first.
to fire triggers.
</p>
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_11">Dependency Checking</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_10">Dependency Checking</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Flush cached query plans when the dependent objects change,
@@ -839,7 +836,7 @@ first.
invalidate its own query plan.
</p>
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_12">Exotic Features</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_11">Exotic Features</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Add pre-parsing phase that converts non-ISO syntax to supported
@@ -866,7 +863,7 @@ first.
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-04/msg00818.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-04/msg00818.php</a>
</p>
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_13">Indexes</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_12">Indexes</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Allow inherited tables to inherit index, UNIQUE constraint, and primary
@@ -933,7 +930,7 @@ first.
</li><li>Allow multi-column hash indexes
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_14">Fsync</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_13">Fsync</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Improve commit_delay handling to reduce fsync()
@@ -945,7 +942,7 @@ first.
</li><li>%Add an option to sync() before fsync()'ing checkpoint files
</li><li>Add program to test if fsync has a delay compared to non-fsync
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_15">Cache Usage</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_14">Cache Usage</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Allow free-behind capability for large sequential scans, perhaps using
@@ -999,7 +996,7 @@ first.
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-10/msg01419.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-10/msg01419.php</a>
</p>
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_16">Vacuum</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_15">Vacuum</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Improve speed with indexes
@@ -1057,12 +1054,12 @@ first.
</li><li>Turn on by default
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_17">Locking</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_16">Locking</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Fix priority ordering of read and write light-weight locks (Neil)
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_18">Startup Time Improvements</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_17">Startup Time Improvements</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Experiment with multi-threaded backend for backend creation [<a href="http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgtodo?thread">thread</a>]
@@ -1085,7 +1082,7 @@ first.
existing backends is one of the difficulties with a backend approach.
</p>
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_19">Write-Ahead Log</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_18">Write-Ahead Log</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Eliminate need to write full pages to WAL before page modification [<a href="http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgtodo?wal">wal</a>]
@@ -1149,7 +1146,7 @@ first.
of indexes on TOAST tables.
</p>
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_20">Optimizer / Executor</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_19">Optimizer / Executor</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Improve selectivity functions for geometric operators
@@ -1174,7 +1171,7 @@ first.
<p> This might replace GEQO, <a href="http://sixdemonbag.org/Djinni">http://sixdemonbag.org/Djinni</a>.
</p>
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_21">Miscellaneous Performance</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_20">Miscellaneous Performance</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Do async I/O for faster random read-ahead of data
@@ -1217,7 +1214,7 @@ first.
</p>
</li><li>Research storing disk pages with no alignment/padding
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_22">Source Code</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_21">Source Code</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Add use of 'const' for variables in source tree
@@ -1299,7 +1296,7 @@ first.
of result sets using new statement protocol
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_23">Features We Do _Not_ Want</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_22">Features We Do _Not_ Want</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>All backends running as threads in a single process (not wanted)
@@ -1320,7 +1317,7 @@ first.
</li></ul>
<hr/>
-<h2><a name="section_23_1">Developers who have claimed items are:</a></h2>
+<h2><a name="section_22_1">Developers who have claimed items are:</a></h2>
<ul>
<li>Alvaro is Alvaro Herrera &lt;<a href="mailto:alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl">alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl</a>&gt;
</li><li>Andrew is Andrew Dunstan &lt;<a href="mailto:andrew@dunslane.net">andrew@dunslane.net</a>&gt;