From 7de0a919a26f955151ba8b266aeff63ca71dc46b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:00:04 +0000 Subject: Move "Exotic Features" to the bottom of TODO. --- doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------- 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/src') 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 @@

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. @@ -769,34 +769,7 @@ first. 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 -
- Make private objects accessible only to objects in the same schema -
- Allow current_schema.objname to access current schema objects -
- Add session variables -
- 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

Allow inherited tables to inherit index, UNIQUE constraint, and primary @@ -862,7 +835,7 @@ first.
Allow multi-column hash indexes

Fsync

Improve commit_delay handling to reduce fsync() @@ -874,7 +847,7 @@ first.
%Add an option to sync() before fsync()'ing checkpoint files
Add program to test if fsync has a delay compared to non-fsync

Cache Usage

Allow free-behind capability for large sequential scans, perhaps using @@ -928,7 +901,7 @@ first.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-10/msg01419.php

Vacuum

Improve speed with indexes @@ -987,12 +960,12 @@ first.

Locking

Fix priority ordering of read and write light-weight locks (Neil)

Startup Time Improvements

Experiment with multi-threaded backend for backend creation [thread] @@ -1015,7 +988,7 @@ first. existing backends is one of the difficulties with a backend approach.

Write-Ahead Log

Eliminate need to write full pages to WAL before page modification [wal] @@ -1079,7 +1052,7 @@ first. of indexes on TOAST tables.

Optimizer / Executor

Improve selectivity functions for geometric operators @@ -1104,7 +1077,7 @@ first.
This might replace GEQO, http://sixdemonbag.org/Djinni.

Miscellaneous Performance

Do async I/O for faster random read-ahead of data @@ -1158,7 +1131,7 @@ first.
Reduce the row header size?

Source Code

Add use of 'const' for variables in source tree @@ -1231,6 +1204,33 @@ first. 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 +
- Make private objects accessible only to objects in the same schema +
- Allow current_schema.objname to access current schema objects +
- Add session variables +
- 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

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