Minor improvements to the TODO list. Add some URLs for some

existing TODO items, and re-add a TODO item for an "estimated
count" capability.

diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index 1b68a55501db4d9df641984eee647ec283d4c11c..25b8faafaefda7980b068a76badedf23ce90d0ef 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/TODO
+++ b/doc/TODO
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ Functions
 * Add ISO day of week format 'ID' to to_char() where Monday = 1
 * Add a field 'isoyear' to extract(), based on the ISO week
 * Add SPI_gettypmod() to return the typemod for a TupleDesc
-* Allow inlining of set-returning functions
+* Implement inlining of set-returning functions defined in SQL
 * Allow SQL-language functions to return results from RETURNING queries
 
 
@@ -928,6 +928,8 @@ Indexes
          several hash buckets could be stored on a single page and greater
          granularity used for the hash algorithm.
 
+         http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-06/msg00168.php
+
        o Consider sorting hash buckets so entries can be found using a
          binary search, rather than a linear scan
 
@@ -972,6 +974,13 @@ Cache Usage
   faster than a sequential scan it must avoid access to the heap
   to obtain tuple visibility information.
 
+* Provide a way to calculate an "estimated COUNT(*)"
+
+  Perhaps by using the optimizer's cardinality estimates or random
+  sampling.
+
+  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-11/msg00943.php
+
 * Allow data to be pulled directly from indexes
 
   Currently indexes do not have enough tuple visibility information 
@@ -1075,6 +1084,9 @@ Locking
 
 * Fix priority ordering of read and write light-weight locks (Neil)
 
+  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-11/msg00893.php
+  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-11/msg00905.php
+
 
 Startup Time Improvements
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