TODO list for PostgreSQL
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-Last updated: Fri Jul 19 13:26:13 EDT 2002
+Last updated: Sat Jul 20 12:44:41 EDT 2002
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
* -Make equals sign optional in CREATE DATABASE WITH param = 'val'
* Remove unreferenced table files and temp tables during database vacuum
or postmaster startup (Bruce)
-* Add table name mapping for numeric file names (Bruce)
* Remove behavior of postmaster -o after making postmaster/postgres
flags unique
* Allow logging of query durations
* Change NUMERIC data type to use base 10,000 internally
* Change NUMERIC to enforce the maximum precision, and increase it
* Add function to return compressed length of TOAST data values (Tom)
-* Add GUC parameter for DATESTYLE
+* -Add GUC parameter for DATESTYLE
* CONVERSION
o Store binary-compatible type information in the system
o Automatically maintain clustering on a table
* COPY
- o Allow specification of column names
+ o -Allow specification of column names
o Allow dump/load of CSV format
- o Change syntax to WITH DELIMITER, (keep old syntax around?)
+ o -Change syntax to WITH DELIMITER, (keep old syntax around?)
o Allow COPY to report error lines and continue; optionally
allow error codes to be specified; requires savepoints or can
not be run in a multi-statement transaction
o Add SHOW command to display locks
o -Add SET or BEGIN timeout parameter to cancel query
o Add SET REAL_FORMAT and SET DOUBLE_PRECISION_FORMAT using printf args
- o Remove SET KSQO option now that OR processing is improved (Tom)
+ o -Remove SET KSQO option now that OR processing is improved (Tom)
o Add SET PERFORMANCE_TIPS option to suggest INDEX, VACUUM, VACUUM
ANALYZE, and CLUSTER
o Add SHOW command to see locale
- o Allow SHOW to output as a query result, like EXPLAIN
+ o -Allow SHOW to output as a query result, like EXPLAIN
o -Abort all SET changes made in an aborted transaction
* SERVER-SIDE LANGUAGES
* Add sql3 recursive unions
* Add the concept of dataspaces/tablespaces [tablespaces]
-* Allow SQL92 schemas (Tom) [schema]
+* -Add SQL92 schemas (Tom)
* Allow queries across multiple databases [crossdb]
* Add pre-parsing phase that converts non-ANSI features to supported features
* Allow plug-in modules to emulate features from other databases