TODO list for PostgreSQL
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-Last updated: Sat Oct 24 22:41:11 EDT 1998
+Last updated: Fri Oct 30 12:13:04 EST 1998
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us)
Fix memory leak in libpgtcl's pg_select(Constantin)
Fix problems with username/passwords over 8 characters(Tom)
Fix problems with handling of asynchronous NOTIFY in backend(Tom)
+Fix of many bad system table entries(Tom)
Enhancements
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Upgrade ecpg and ecpglib,see src/interfaces/ecpc/ChangeLog(Michael)
-Show the index used in an explain(Zeugswetter)
+Show the index used in an EXPLAIN(Zeugswetter)
+EXPLAIN invokes rule system and shows plan(s) for rewritten queries(Jan)
Multi-byte awareness of many data types and functions, via configure(Tatsuo)
New configure --with-mb option(Tatsuo)
New initdb --pgencoding option(Tatsuo)
Lo_read no longer stores trailing NULL(Bruce)
Identifiers are now truncated to 31 characters internally(Bruce)
Createuser options now availble on the command line
-PL/pgSQL backend programming language(Jan)
Code for 64-bit integer supported added, configure tested, int8 type(Thomas)
Prevent file descriptor leaf from failed COPY(Bruce)
New pg_upgrade command(Bruce)
smarter TCL/TK configuration checking(Billy)
smarter perl configuration(Brook)
configure uses supplied install-sh if no install script found(Tom)
+new Makefile.shlib for shared library configuration(Tom)