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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ TODO list for PostgreSQL ======================== -Last updated: Sun Mar 1 17:14:36 EST 1998 +Last updated: Sat Mar 21 00:26:29 EST 1998 Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us) @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Developers who have claimed items are: * Kurt is "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@va.pubnix.com> * Marc is Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> * Martin is Martin S. Utesch <utesch@aut.tu-freiberg.de> - * Michael is Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de> + * Michael is Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org> * Oleg is Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> * Paul is Paul M. Aoki <aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU> * Patrick is Patrick van Kleef <pvk@pobox.com> @@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ RELIABILITY * Tables that start with xinv confused to be large objects * Two and three dimmensional arrays display improperly, missing {} * GROUP BY in INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM table2 fails -* lo_unlink() crashes server * Prevent auto-table reference, like SELECT table.col WHERE col = 3 (?) * SELECT * FROM table WHERE int4_column = '1' fails * SELECT a[1] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[1] @@ -77,6 +76,9 @@ RELIABILITY * User who can create databases can modify pg_database table * optimizer memory exhaustion with many OR's * elog() does not free all its memory(Jan) +* views on subselects fail +* disallow inherited columns with the same name as new columns +* recover or force failure when disk space is exhausted ENHANCEMENTS ------------ @@ -86,10 +88,10 @@ ENHANCEMENTS * Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance * More access control over who can create tables and access the database * Add full ANSI SQL capabilities - * Implement HAVING clause + * Implement HAVING clause(Stephan) * add OUTER joins, left and right (Thomas) * make VIEWs updateable where possible - * add INTERSECTS, SUBTRACTS + * add INTERSECTS, SUBTRACTS(Stephan) * add temporary tables(Bruce) * add sql3 recursive unions * add the concept of dataspaces @@ -106,9 +108,11 @@ ENHANCEMENTS * Large objects * Fix large object mapping scheme, own reltype * not to stuff everything as files in a single directory + * Fix large object memory leaks * Better interface for adding to pg_group * Make MONEY/DECIMAL have a defined precision -* Add support for tables >2G, or test current version +* Fix tables >2G, or report error when 2G size reached + (fix lseek()/off_t, mdextend()/RELSEG_SIZE) * Threaded version of the server or libpq * Allow libpq to cancel query requests * Add REGEX internationalization @@ -135,7 +139,6 @@ ENHANCEMENTS * Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from ""(?) * Allow variable casts with BETWEEN 'today'::asbtime AND 'today'::abstime * Allow INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... FROM view to work -* Allow text, char(), and varchar() overhead to be only 2 bytes, not 4 bytes * Make VACUUM on database not lock pg_class * Make VACUUM ANALYZE only use a readlock * Allow cursors to be DECLAREd/OPENed/CLOSEed outside transactions @@ -145,6 +148,15 @@ ENHANCEMENTS * Allow variable block sizes(Darren) * System tables are now more update-able from SQL(Jan) * New pg_shadow file, pg_user is now a view of pg_shadow(Jan) +* Allow flag to control COPY input/output of NULLs +* Allow CLUSTER on all tables at once, and improve CLUSTER +* Change all references of Postgres to PostgreSQL, including binary names +* Add ELOG_TIMESTAMPS to elog()(?) +* Change LOCK tablename to LOCK TABLE tablename(?) +* Allow max tuple length to be changed(Darren) +* Have psql with no database name not connect to username as default(?) +* Allow subqueries in target list +* Granting permissions to another user looses permissions for the owner PERFORMANCE ----------- @@ -161,8 +173,14 @@ PERFORMANCE * update pg_statistic table to remove operator column * make index creation use psort code, because it is now faster(Vadim) * remove fork()/exec() of backend and make it just fork() -* Improve vacuum locking issues * Add base table name to \d index +* Allow char() not to use variable-sized header to reduce disk size +* Do async I/O to do better read-ahead of data +* Fix optmizer problem with self-table joins +* Fix memory exhaustion when using many OR's +* Use spin locks only on multi-CPU systems, yield CPU instead +* Get faster regex() code from Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.utoronto.ca> + when it is available DOCUMENTATION ------------- @@ -170,10 +188,44 @@ DOCUMENTATION * added features used in grammer but not in docs, like :: and CAST * update libpq++ and pginterface manual page * Add keyword list to documentation, already in /tools +* Add 'man pgsql' to show all manual page names + ============================================================================= +CHANGES IN THE 6.3p1 PATCH +-------------------------- +ecpg cleanup/fixes, now version 1.1(Michael Meskes) +pg_user cleanup(Bruce) +large object fix for pg_dump and tclsh(alvin@camberlo.demon.co.uk) +LIKE fix for multiple adjacent underscores +fix for redefining builtin functions(Thomas) +ultrix4 cleanup +upgrade to pg_access 0.83 +updated CLUSTER manual page +multi-byte character set support, see doc/README.mb(Tatsuo) +configure --with-pgport fix +pg_ident fix +big-endian fix for backend communications(Tatsuo) +SUBSTR() and substring() fix(Thomas) +several jdbc fixes(Peter) +libpgtcl improvements, see libptcl/README(Randy Kunkee) +Fix for "Datasize = 0" error(Vadim) +Prevent \do from wrapping(Bruce) +Remove duplicate Russian character set entries +Sunos4 cleanup +Allow optional TABLE keyword in LOCK and SELECT INTO(Thomas) +CREATE SEQUENCE options to allow a negative integer(Thomas) +Add "PASSWORD" as an allowed column identifier(Thomas) +Add checks for UNION target fields(Bruce) +Fix Alpha port(Dwayne Bailey) +Fix for text arrays containing quotes(Doug Gibson) +Solaris compile fix(Albert Chin-A-Young) +Better identify tcl and tk libs and includes(Bruce) + + + CHANGES IN THE 6.3 RELEASE -------------------------- |