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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2006-10-02 14:00:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2006-10-02 14:00:04 +0000 |
| commit | 7de0a919a26f955151ba8b266aeff63ca71dc46b (patch) | |
| tree | 329878b336fa909d462ee8ae783c464942c41347 | |
| parent | 1e05359f4b93627a34b809182f13d759897831c4 (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-7de0a919a26f955151ba8b266aeff63ca71dc46b.tar.gz postgresql-7de0a919a26f955151ba8b266aeff63ca71dc46b.zip | |
Move "Exotic Features" to the bottom of TODO.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/TODO | 63 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html | 76 |
2 files changed, 70 insertions, 69 deletions
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ PostgreSQL TODO List ==================== Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) -Last updated: Fri Sep 29 23:55:30 EDT 2006 +Last updated: Mon Oct 2 09:59:50 EDT 2006 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html. @@ -849,36 +849,6 @@ Dependency Checking invalidate its own query plan. -Exotic Features -=============== - -* Add pre-parsing phase that converts non-ISO syntax to supported - syntax - - This could allow SQL written for other databases to run without - modification. - -* Allow plug-in modules to emulate features from other databases -* SQL*Net listener that makes PostgreSQL appear as an Oracle database - to clients -* Allow statements across databases or servers with transaction - semantics - - This can be done using dblink and two-phase commit. - -* Add the features of packages - - o Make private objects accessible only to objects in the same schema - o Allow current_schema.objname to access current schema objects - o Add session variables - o Allow nested schemas - -* Consider allowing control of upper/lower case folding of unquoted - identifiers - - http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-04/msg00818.php - - Indexes ======= @@ -1364,6 +1334,37 @@ Source Code of result sets using new statement protocol +Exotic Features +=============== + +* Add pre-parsing phase that converts non-ISO syntax to supported + syntax + + This could allow SQL written for other databases to run without + modification. + +* Allow plug-in modules to emulate features from other databases +* SQL*Net listener that makes PostgreSQL appear as an Oracle database + to clients +* Allow statements across databases or servers with transaction + semantics + + This can be done using dblink and two-phase commit. + +* Add the features of packages + + o Make private objects accessible only to objects in the same schema + o Allow current_schema.objname to access current schema objects + o Add session variables + o Allow nested schemas + +* Consider allowing control of upper/lower case folding of unquoted + identifiers + + http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-04/msg00818.php + + + Features We Do _Not_ Want ========================= diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html index f75d1a43e8c..bcac48511d3 100644 --- a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html +++ b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <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: Fri Sep 29 23:55:30 EDT 2006 +Last updated: Mon Oct 2 09:59:50 EDT 2006 </p> <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>. @@ -769,34 +769,7 @@ first. invalidate its own query plan. </p> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_12">Exotic Features</a></h1> - -<ul> - <li>Add pre-parsing phase that converts non-ISO syntax to supported - syntax -<p> This could allow SQL written for other databases to run without - modification. -</p> - </li><li>Allow plug-in modules to emulate features from other databases - </li><li>SQL*Net listener that makes PostgreSQL appear as an Oracle database - to clients - </li><li>Allow statements across databases or servers with transaction - semantics -<p> This can be done using dblink and two-phase commit. -</p> - </li><li>Add the features of packages - <ul> - <li>Make private objects accessible only to objects in the same schema - </li><li>Allow current_schema.objname to access current schema objects - </li><li>Add session variables - </li><li>Allow nested schemas - </li></ul> - </li><li>Consider allowing control of upper/lower case folding of unquoted - identifiers -<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 @@ -862,7 +835,7 @@ 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() @@ -874,7 +847,7 @@ 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 @@ -928,7 +901,7 @@ 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 @@ -987,12 +960,12 @@ first. </p> </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>] @@ -1015,7 +988,7 @@ 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>] @@ -1079,7 +1052,7 @@ 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 @@ -1104,7 +1077,7 @@ 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 @@ -1158,7 +1131,7 @@ first. </li><li>Reduce the row header size? </li></ul> </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 @@ -1231,6 +1204,33 @@ first. of result sets using new statement protocol </li></ul> </li></ul> +<h1><a name="section_22">Exotic Features</a></h1> + +<ul> + <li>Add pre-parsing phase that converts non-ISO syntax to supported + syntax +<p> This could allow SQL written for other databases to run without + modification. +</p> + </li><li>Allow plug-in modules to emulate features from other databases + </li><li>SQL*Net listener that makes PostgreSQL appear as an Oracle database + to clients + </li><li>Allow statements across databases or servers with transaction + semantics +<p> This can be done using dblink and two-phase commit. +</p> + </li><li>Add the features of packages + <ul> + <li>Make private objects accessible only to objects in the same schema + </li><li>Allow current_schema.objname to access current schema objects + </li><li>Add session variables + </li><li>Allow nested schemas + </li></ul> + </li><li>Consider allowing control of upper/lower case folding of unquoted + identifiers +<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_23">Features We Do _Not_ Want</a></h1> <ul> |