PostgreSQL TODO List
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us)
-Last updated: Mon Oct 23 22:42:19 EDT 2006
+Last updated: Tue Nov 14 17:26:31 EST 2006
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
identifiers
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-04/msg00818.php
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+ http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg01527.php
Features We Do _Not_ Want
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<h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>
<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:bruce@momjian.us">bruce@momjian.us</a>)<br/>
-Last updated: Mon Oct 23 22:42:19 EDT 2006
+Last updated: Tue Nov 14 17:26:31 EST 2006
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<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>.
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</li><li>Change NUMERIC to enforce the maximum precision
</li><li>Add NUMERIC division operator that doesn't round?
-<p> Currently NUMERIC _rounds_ the result to the specified precision.
+<p> Currently NUMERIC <u>rounds</u> the result to the specified precision.
This means division can return a result that multiplied by the
divisor is greater than the dividend, e.g. this returns a value > 10:
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require frequent mapping/unmapping. Extending the file also causes
mapping problems that might require mapping only individual pages,
leading to thousands of mappings. Another problem is that there is no
- way to _prevent_ I/O to disk from the dirty shared buffers so changes
+ way to <u>prevent</u> I/O to disk from the dirty shared buffers so changes
could hit disk before WAL is written.
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</li><li>Add a script to ask system configuration questions and tune postgresql.conf
<li>Allow dynamic character set handling
</li><li>Add decoded type, length, precision
</li><li>Use compression?
- </li><li>Update clients to use data types, typmod, <a href="http://schema.table.column">schema.table.column</a>/ names
+ </li><li>Update clients to use data types, typmod, schema.table.column names
of result sets using new statement protocol
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
</li><li>Consider allowing control of upper/lower case folding of unquoted
identifiers
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-04/msg00818.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-04/msg00818.php</a>
+ <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg01527.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg01527.php</a>
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</li></ul>
-<h1><a name="section_23">Features We Do _Not_ Want</a></h1>
+<h1><a name="section_23">Features We Do <u>Not</u> Want</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>All backends running as threads in a single process (not wanted)
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