TODO list for PostgreSQL
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-Last updated: Thu Jul 27 14:41:53 EDT 2000
+Last updated: Thu Jul 27 14:46:45 EDT 2000
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
* SELECT pg_class FROM pg_class generates strange error
* Alter TABLE ADD COLUMN does not honor DEFAULT, add CONSTRAINT
-* Creating index of TIMESTAMP & RELTIME fails, or rename to DATETIME(Thomas)
+* -Creating index of TIMESTAMP & RELTIME fails, or rename to DATETIME(Thomas)
* SELECT foo UNION SELECT foo is incorrectly simplified to SELECT foo
* Unique index on base column not honored on inserts from inherited table
INSERT INTO inherit_table (unique_index_col) VALUES (dup) should fail
* Modification of pg_class can happen while table in use by
another backend. Might lead to MVCC inside of syscache
* Permission to UPDATE table allows DELETE also
-* Some database schema's are not dumpable; do dumps in oid order
ENHANCEMENTS
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ADMIN
-* -More access control over who can create tables and use locks(Karal)
-* Test syslog functionality
+* -More access control over who can create tables and use locks(Karel)
+* -Test syslog functionality
* Allow elog() to return error codes, not just messages
* Allow international error message support and add error codes
-* Unify configuration into one configuration file (Peter E)
-* use setproctitle() if it exists for 'ps' display of status
+* -Unify configuration into one configuration file (Peter E)
+* -use setproctitle() if it exists for 'ps' display of status
TYPES
* Declare typein/out functions in pg_proc with a special "C string" data type
* Add non-large-object binary field
* Functions returning sets don't really work right[function]
-* Add hash for int8
+* -Add hash for int8
* SELECT col FROM tab WHERE numeric_col = 10.1 fails
* Get BIT type working
* Allow better handling of numeric constants, type conversion [typeconv]
COMMANDS
* ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN to inherited table put column in wrong place [inherit]
-* Add ALTER TABLE DROP/ALTER COLUMN feature(Peter E) [drop]
+* -Add ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN feature(Peter E)
+* Add ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN feature [drop]
* Add ALTER TABLE command to change table ownership
* Allow CLUSTER on all tables at once, and improve CLUSTER, loses NOT
NULL specification, indexes, permissions, etc on table
supplied ESCAPE [like]
* Allow RULE recompilation
* Support UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT in sub-selects
-* Allow DELETE and UPDATE to use inheritance using tablename*
+* -Allow DELETE and UPDATE to use inheritance
* Allow INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (a, b, c, DEFAULT, x, y, z, ...)
* Allow BINARY option to SELECT, like we do with DECLARE
* Prevent truncate on table with a referential integrity trigger
* Gather more accurate statistics using indexes
* Improve statistics storage in pg_class [performance]
* Improve VACUUM speed with indexes [vacuum]
-* BSD/OS does not support locale because there is no LC_MESSAGES
+* -BSD/OS does not support locale because there is no LC_MESSAGES
SOURCE CODE
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