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TODO list (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
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-last updated: Thu Oct 2 14:08:20 EDT 1997
+last updated: Fri Oct 17 08:18:16 EDT 1997
current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us)
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-THE CHANGES FOR 6.2 APPEAR AT THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT
+THE CHANGES FOR 6.2 and 6.2.1 APPEAR AT THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT
Developers who have claimed items are:
Bruce is Bruce Momjian<maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Add SERIAL type
Preserve GRANT/REVOKE/pg_group in pg_dump
Transaction log
+More access control over who can create tables and access the database
Add full ANSI SQL capabilities (Stefan)
add subselects, possibility using temporary SQL functions
Implement HAVING clause
change the library/backend interface to use network byte order
allow unix domain sockets for local connections for performance and security
Add PAGER for psql's \dt and \d tablename
+Make timezone set-able by client applications(Thomas)
+Restore unused oid's on backend exit if no one else has gotten oids
PERFORMANCE
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+ CHANGES IN THE 6.2.1 RELEASE
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+Changes in this release
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+Allow TIME and TYPE column names(Thomas)
+Allow larger range of true/false as boolean values(Thomas)
+Support output of "now" and "current"(Thomas)
+Handle DEFAULT with INSERT of NULL properly(Vadim)
+Fix for relation reference counts problem in buffer manager(Vadim)
+Allow strings to span lines, like ANSI(Thomas)
+Fix for backward cursor with ORDER BY(Vadim)
+Fix avg(cash) computation(Thomas)
+Fix for specifying a column twice in ORDER/GROUP BY(Vadim)
+Documented new libpq function to return affected rows, PQcmdTuples(Bruce)
+Trigger function for inserting user names for INSERT/UPDATE(Brook Milligan)
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CHANGES IN THE 6.2 RELEASE
Bug Fixes