TODO list for PostgreSQL
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-Last updated: Tue Nov 12 21:10:17 EST 2002
+Last updated: Tue Nov 26 17:05:35 EST 2002
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
o allow replication over unreliable or non-persistent links
o http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgreplication/projdisplay.php
* Point-in-time data recovery using backup and write-ahead log
+* Create native Win32 port [win32]
Reporting
* Allow INET subnet tests using non-constants
* Add now("transaction|statement|clock") functionality
* -Add GUC variables to control floating number output digits (Pedro Ferreira)
+* Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences, seqname.nextval
* CONVERSION
o Allow better handling of numeric constants, type conversion
in array
* Allow DEFERRABLE UNIQUE constraints
* Allow triggers to be disabled [trigger]
-* Support statement-level triggers and triggers on columns (Neil)
+* -Support statement-level triggers (Neil)
+* Support triggers on columns (Neil)
Dependency Checking
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* Overhaul bufmgr/lockmgr/transaction manager
-* Allow savepoints / nested transactions [transactions]
+* Allow savepoints / nested transactions [transactions] (Bruce)
Exotic Features
* Improve Subplan list handling
* Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
-* Add hash for evaluating GROUP BY aggregates (Tom)
+* -Add hash for evaluating GROUP BY aggregates (Tom)
* Allow merge and hash joins on expressions not just simple variables (Tom)
* Make IN/NOT IN have similar performance to EXISTS/NOT EXISTS [exists]
* Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc. [optimizer]
* Better document ability to build only certain interfaces (Marc)
* Remove or relicense modules that are not under the BSD license, if possible
* Remove memory/file descriptor freeing befor elog(ERROR) (Bruce)
-* Create native Win32 port [win32]
* Acquire lock on a relation before building a relcache entry for it
* Research interaction of setitimer() and sleep() used by statement_timeout