TODO list for PostgreSQL
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-Last updated: Mon Sep 29 17:41:25 EDT 2003
+Last updated: Sat Oct 4 14:19:54 EDT 2003
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
* Make blind writes go through the file descriptor cache
* Cache last known per-tuple offsets to speed long tuple access
* Automatically place fixed-width, NOT NULL columns first in a table
-* Consider using MVCC to cache count(*) queries with no WHERE clause
+* Use a fixed row count and a +/- count with MVCC visibility rules
+ to allow fast COUNT(*) queries with no WHERE clause(?)
Vacuum
* Acquire lock on a relation before building a relcache entry for it
* Research interaction of setitimer() and sleep() used by statement_timeout
* Add checks for fclose() failure
-* Change CVS $Id: TODO,v 1.1141 2003/09/29 21:41:29 momjian Exp $ to $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/TODO,v 1.1141 2003/09/29 21:41:29 momjian Exp $
+* Change CVS $Id: TODO,v 1.1142 2003/10/04 18:19:57 momjian Exp $ to $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/TODO,v 1.1142 2003/10/04 18:19:57 momjian Exp $
* Exit postmaster if postgresql.conf can not be opened
* Rename /scripts directory because they are all C programs now
* Allow the regression tests to start postmaster with -i so the tests