PostgreSQL TODO List
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
-Last updated: Sat Feb 25 11:34:42 EST 2006
+Last updated: Sun Feb 26 16:22:48 EST 2006
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
* -Prevent INET cast to CIDR from dropping netmask, SELECT '1.1.1.1'::inet::cidr
* -Allow INET + INT8 to increment the host part of the address or
throw an error on overflow
-* %Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery
+* -Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery
* Allow user-defined types to specify a type modifier at table creation
time
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<h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>
<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</a>)<br/>
-Last updated: Sat Feb 25 11:34:42 EST 2006
+Last updated: Sun Feb 26 16:22:48 EST 2006
</p>
<p>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<br/>
<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html</a>.
</li><li>-<em>Prevent INET cast to CIDR from dropping netmask, SELECT '<a href="telnet://1.1.1.1">1.1.1.1</a>'::inet::cidr</em>
</li><li>-<em>Allow INET + INT8 to increment the host part of the address or</em>
throw an error on overflow
- </li><li>%Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery
+ </li><li>-<em>Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery</em>
</li><li>Allow user-defined types to specify a type modifier at table creation
time
</li><li>Dates and Times
<h1><a name="section_7">Views / Rules</a></h1>
<ul>
- <li>%Automatically create rules on views so they are updateable, per SQL99
+ <li>Automatically create rules on views so they are updateable, per SQL99
<p> We can only auto-create rules for simple views. For more complex
- cases users will still have to write rules.
+ cases users will still have to write rules manually.
</p>
</li><li>Add the functionality for WITH CHECK OPTION clause of CREATE VIEW
</li><li>Allow NOTIFY in rules involving conditionals
called, and the table is locked in exclusive mode.
</p>
</li><li>Allow PREPARE of cursors
- </li><li>Allow PREPARE to automatically determine parameter types based on the SQL
- statement
+ </li><li>-<em>Allow PREPARE to automatically determine parameter types based on the SQL</em>
+ statement (Neil)
</li><li>Allow finer control over the caching of prepared query plans
<p> Currently, queries prepared via the libpq API are planned on first
execute using the supplied parameters --- allow SQL PREPARE to do the
expressions like SELECT col1 || col2
</li><li>Use more reliable method for CREATE DATABASE to get a consistent
copy of db?
- </li><li>Add ON COMMIT capability to CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT
+ </li><li>-<em>Add ON COMMIT capability to CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT</em>
</li></ul>
</li><li>UPDATE
<ul>
</li><li>%Promote debug_query_string into a server-side function current_query()
</li><li>%Allow the identifier length to be increased via a configure option
</li><li>Allow cross-compiling by generating the zic database on the target system
- </li><li>Improve NLS maintenace of libpgport messages linked onto applications
+ </li><li>Improve NLS maintenance of libpgport messages linked onto applications
</li><li>Allow ecpg to work with MSVC and BCC
</li><li>Add xpath_array() to /contrib/xml2 to return results as an array
</li><li>Allow building in directories containing spaces
spaces and then copy the install to a directory with spaces.
</p>
</li><li>Fix sgmltools so PDFs can be generated with bookmarks
- </li><li>%Clean up compiler warnings (especially with gcc version 4)
+ </li><li>-*%Clean up compiler warnings (especially with gcc version 4)*
</li><li>Use UTF8 encoding for NLS messages so all server encodings can
read them properly
</li><li>Update Bonjour to work with newer cross-platform SDK
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