TODO list for PostgreSQL
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-Last updated: Sun Feb 24 22:37:24 EST 2002
+Last updated: Mon Feb 25 01:22:48 EST 2002
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
* Remove behavior of postmaster -o after making postmaster/postgres
flags unique
* Allow logging of query durations
-* Prevent SIGHUP and 'pg_ctl reload' from changing command line
+* -Prevent SIGHUP and 'pg_ctl reload' from changing command line
specified parameters to postgresql.conf defaults
* Add SIMILAR TO to allow character classes, 'pg_[a-c]%'
* Add BETWEEN ASYMMETRIC/SYMMETRIC
-* Remove LIMIT #,# and force use LIMIT and OFFSET clauses in 7.3 (Bruce)
+* -Remove LIMIT #,# and force use LIMIT and OFFSET clauses in 7.3 (Bruce)
* Allow LIMIT/OFFSET to use expressions
* Disallow TRUNCATE on tables that are involved in referential constraints
* Add OR REPLACE clauses to non-FUNCTION object creation
* CREATE TABLE AS can not determine column lengths from expressions [atttypmod]
* Allow UPDATE to handle complex aggregates [update]
-* Prevent create/drop scripts from allowing extra args (Bruce)
+* -Prevent create/drop scripts from allowing extra args (Bruce)
* Allow command blocks to ignore certain types of errors
* Add checks for missing parameters to shell script, to prevent
over-shifting
* Have pg_dump use LEFT OUTER JOIN in multi-table SELECTs
or multiple SELECTS to avoid bad system catalog entries
-* Have pg_dump -C dump database location and encoding information
+* -Have pg_dump -C dump database location and encoding information
* Allow psql \d to show foreign keys
* Allow psql \d to show temporary table structure
* Allow psql to show transaction status if backend protocol changes made
* Improve speed with indexes (perhaps recreate index instead) [vacuum]
* Reduce lock time by moving tuples with read lock, then write
lock and truncate table [vacuum]
-* Add LAZY VACUUM (Vadim) [performance]
* Provide automatic scheduling of background vacuum (Tom)
LOCKING
* Move some things from /contrib into main tree
* Remove warnings created by -Wcast-align
* Move platform-specific ps status display info from ps_status.c to ports
-* Allow ps status display to work on Solaris/SVr4-based systems
* Make one version of simple_prompt() in code (Bruce, Tom)
* Compile in syslog functionaility by default (?)
* Modify regression tests to prevent failures do to minor numeric rounding