PostgreSQL TODO List
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
-Last updated: Fri Jun 16 00:04:49 EDT 2006
+Last updated: Fri Jun 16 12:59:22 EDT 2006
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
o Fix interval display to support values exceeding 2^31 hours
o Add overflow checking to timestamp and interval arithmetic
o Add ISO INTERVAL handling
+
+ http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-01/msg00250.php
+
o -Add support for day-time syntax, INTERVAL '1 2:03:04' DAY TO
SECOND
o Support ISO INTERVAL syntax if units cannot be determined from
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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: Fri Jun 16 00:04:49 EDT 2006
+Last updated: Fri Jun 16 12:59:22 EDT 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>Fix interval display to support values exceeding 2^31 hours
</li><li>Add overflow checking to timestamp and interval arithmetic
</li><li>Add ISO INTERVAL handling
- <ul>
- <li>-<em>Add support for day-time syntax, INTERVAL '1 2:03:04' DAY TO </em>
+ </li></ul>
+</li></ul>
+<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-01/msg00250.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-01/msg00250.php</a>
+</p>
+<ul>
+ <li>-<em>Add support for day-time syntax, INTERVAL '1 2:03:04' DAY TO </em>
SECOND
- </li><li>Support ISO INTERVAL syntax if units cannot be determined from
+ </li><li>Support ISO INTERVAL syntax if units cannot be determined from
the string, and are supplied after the string
<p> The SQL standard states that the units after the string
specify the units of the string, e.g. INTERVAL '2' MINUTE
range of units supported, e.g. PostgreSQL supports '1 year 1
hour', while the SQL standard does not.
</p>
- </li><li>Add support for year-month syntax, INTERVAL '50-6' YEAR TO MONTH
- </li><li>Interpret INTERVAL '1 year' MONTH as CAST (INTERVAL '1 year' AS
+ </li><li>Add support for year-month syntax, INTERVAL '50-6' YEAR TO MONTH
+ </li><li>Interpret INTERVAL '1 year' MONTH as CAST (INTERVAL '1 year' AS
INTERVAL MONTH), and this should return '12 months'
- </li><li>Round or truncate values to the requested precision, e.g.
+ </li><li>Round or truncate values to the requested precision, e.g.
INTERVAL '11 months' AS YEAR should return one or zero
- </li><li>Support precision, CREATE TABLE foo (a INTERVAL MONTH(3))
- </li></ul>
- </li></ul>
- </li><li>Arrays
+ </li><li>Support precision, CREATE TABLE foo (a INTERVAL MONTH(3))
<ul>
- <li>-<em>Allow NULLs in arrays</em>
- </li><li>Delay resolution of array expression's data type so assignment
+ <li>Arrays
+ <ul>
+ <li>-<em>Allow NULLs in arrays</em>
+ </li><li>Delay resolution of array expression's data type so assignment
coercion can be performed on empty array expressions
- </li></ul>
- </li><li>Binary Data
- <ul>
- <li>Improve vacuum of large objects, like /contrib/vacuumlo?
- </li><li>Add security checking for large objects
- </li><li>Auto-delete large objects when referencing row is deleted
+ </li></ul>
+ </li><li>Binary Data
+ <li>Improve vacuum of large objects, like /contrib/vacuumlo?
+ </li><li>Add security checking for large objects
+ </li><li>Auto-delete large objects when referencing row is deleted
<p> /contrib/lo offers this functionality.
</p>
- </li><li>Allow read/write into TOAST values like large objects
+ </li><li>Allow read/write into TOAST values like large objects
<p> This requires the TOAST column to be stored EXTERNAL.
</p>
- </li><li>Add API for 64-bit large object access
+ </li><li>Add API for 64-bit large object access
<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-09/msg00781.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-09/msg00781.php</a>
</p>
+ </li></ul>
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
<h1><a name="section_5">Functions</a></h1>
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