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- TODO list for PostgreSQL
- ========================
- Last updated: Mon Sep 6 23:55:43 EDT 1999
- Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us)
- The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
- the PostgreSQL web site, http://www.PostgreSQL.org.
- A dash(-) marks changes that will appear in the next release.
- RELIABILITY
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- RESOURCES
- * Elog() does not free all its memory(Jan)
- * spinlock stuck problem when elog(FATAL) and elog(ERROR) inside bufmgr
- * Recover or force failure when disk space is exhausted
- PARSER
- * Disallow inherited columns with the same name as new columns
- * INSERT INTO ... SELECT with AS columns matching result columns problem
- * SELECT pg_class FROM pg_class generates strange error
- * Alter TABLE ADD COLUMN does not honor DEFAULT, add CONSTRAINT
- * Do not allow bpchar column creation without length
- * Select a[1] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[1]
- * -Array index references without table name cause problems
- * Update table SET table.value = 3 fails
- * Creating index of TIMESTAMP & RELTIME fails, or rename to DATETIME(Thomas)
- * SELECT foo UNION SELECT foo is incorrectly simplified to SELECT foo
- * -INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP BY groups by target columns not source columns
- * -CREATE TABLE test (a char(5) DEFAULT text '', b int4) fails on INSERT
- * UNION with LIMIT fails
- * Unique index on base column not honored on inserts from inherited table
- INSERT INTO inherit_table (unique_index_col) VALUES (dup) should fail
- * CREATE TABLE x AS SELECT 1 UNION SELECT 2 fails
- * CREATE TABLE test(col char(2) DEFAULT user) fails in length restriction
- * SELECT ... UNION ... ORDER BY fails when sort expr not in result list
- * Be smarter about promoting types when UNION merges different data types
- * SELECT ... UNION ... GROUP BY fails if column types disagree
- * redesign INSERT ... SELECT to have two levels of target list
- * -select * from pg_class where oid in (0,-1)
- * have INTERSECT/EXCEPT prevent duplicates unless ALL is specified
- VIEWS
- * Views containing aggregates sometimes fail(Jan)
- * Views with spaces in view name fail when referenced
- MISC
- * User who can create databases can modify pg_database table
- * Plpgsql does not handle quoted mixed-case identifiers
- * Fix btree to give a useful elog when key > 1/2 (page - overhead)
- * pg_dump should preserve primary key information
- ENHANCEMENTS
- ------------
- URGENT
- * Add referential integrity(Jan?)
- * Add OUTER joins, left and right(Thomas, Bruce)
- * Allow long tuples by chaining or auto-storing outside db (chaining,large objs)
- * Eliminate limits on query length
- * Fix memory leak for expressions?, aggregates?(Tom?)
- ADMIN
- * Better interface for adding to pg_group
- * More access control over who can create tables and access the database
- * Add syslog functionality
- * Allow elog() to return error codes, not just messages
- * Allow international error message support and add error codes
- * Generate postmaster pid file and remove flock/fcntl lock code
- * Add ability to specifiy location of lock/socket files
- TYPES
- * Add BIT, BIT VARYING
- * Nchar (as distinguished from ordinary varchar),
- * Domain capability
- * Add STDDEV/VARIANCE() function for standard deviation computation/variance
- * Allow compression of large fields or a compressed field type
- * Large objects
- o Fix large object mapping scheme, own typeid or reltype(Peter)
- o Allow large text type to use large objects(Peter)
- o Not to stuff everything as files in a single directory, hash dirs
- o Allow large object vacuuming
- o Tables that start with xinv confused to be large objects
- * Allow pg_descriptions when creating types, tables, columns, and functions
- * Add IPv6 capability to INET/CIDR types
- * Make a separate SERIAL type?
- * Store binary-compatible type information in the system
- * Allow user to define char1 column
- * Add support for & operator
- * Allow LOCALE on a per-column basis, default to ASCII
- * Allow array on int8[]
- * Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type
- * Declare typein/out functions in pg_proc with a special "C string" data type
- * Add non-large-object binary field
- * Add index on NUMERIC/DECIMAL type
- * Make Absolutetime/Relativetime int4 because time_t can be int8 on some ports
- VIEWS
- * Allow DISTINCT on views
- * Allow views of aggregate columns
- * Allow views with subselects
- INDEXES
- * Allow CREATE INDEX zman_index ON test (date_trunc( 'day', zman ) datetime_ops)
- fails index can't store constant parameters
- * Allow creation of functional indexes to use default types
- * Permissions on indexes - prevent them?
- * Allow SQL function indexes
- * Add FILLFACTOR to index creation
- * Allow indexing of LIKE with localle character sets
- * Allow indexing of more than eight columns
- COMMANDS
- * ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN to inherited table put column in wrong place
- * Add ALTER TABLE DROP/ALTER COLUMN feature
- * Allow CLUSTER on all tables at once, and improve CLUSTER
- * Generate error on CREATE OPERATOR of ~~, ~ and and ~*
- * Add SIMILAR TO to allow character classes, 'pg_[a-c]%'
- * Auto-destroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL(Ryan)
- * Allow LOCK TABLE tab1, tab2, tab3 so all tables locked in unison
- * Allow INSERT/UPDATE of system-generated oid value for a row
- * Allow ESCAPE '' at the end of LIKE for ANSI compliance
- * Rewrite the LIKE handling by rewriting the user string with the
- supplied ESCAPE
- * Move LIKE index optimization handling to the optimizer
- * Allow RULE recompilation
- * Support UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT in sub-selects
-
- CLIENTS
- * Make NULL's come out at the beginning or end depending on the
- ORDER BY direction
- * Allow flag to control COPY input/output of NULLs
- * Update reltuples from COPY command
- * Allow psql copy to allow delimiters
- * Add a function to return the last inserted oid, for use in psql scripts
- * Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from ""(?)
- * PQrequestCancel() be able to terminate backend waiting for lock
- EXOTIC FEATURES
- * Add sql3 recursive unions
- * Add the concept of dataspaces
- * Add replication of distributed databases
- * Allow queries across multiple databases
- MISC
- * Increase identifier length(NAMEDATALEN) if small performance hit
- * Allow row re-use without vacuum(Vadim)
- * Create a background process for each database that runs while
- database is idle, finding superceeded rows, gathering stats and vacuuming
- * Add UNIQUE capability to non-btree indexes
- * Certain indexes will not shrink, i.e. oid indexes with many inserts
- * Restore unused oid's on backend exit if no one else has gotten oids
- * Have UPDATE/DELETE clean out indexes
- * Allow WHERE restriction on ctid
- * Allow cursors to be DECLAREd/OPENed/CLOSEed outside transactions
- * Allow PQrequestCancel() to terminate when in waiting-for-lock state
- * Transaction log, so re-do log can be on a separate disk by
- with after-row images(Vadim)
- * Populate backend status area and write program to dump status data
- * Make oid use unsigned int more reliably, pg_atoi()
- * Allow subqueries in target list
- * Put sort files, large objects in their on directory
- * Do autocommit so always in a transaction block
- * Show location of syntax error in query
- * Redesign the function call interface to handle NULLs better(Jan)
- * Document/trigger/rule so changes to pg_shadow create pg_pwd
- * Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc.
- * Overhaul mdmgr/smgr to fix double unlinking and double opens, cleanup
- * Overhaul bufmgr/lockmgr/transaction manager
- * Add PL/Perl(Mark Hollomon)
- * Make postgres user have a password by default
- * Add configure test to check for C++ need for *.h and namespaces
- * Allow BLCKSZ <= 64k, not <= 32k
- * redesign UNION structures to have separarate target lists
- PERFORMANCE
- -----------
- FSYNC
- * Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance
- * Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries
- INDEXES
- * Use indexes in ORDER BY for restrictive data sets, min(), max()
- * Pull requested data directly from indexes, bypassing heap data
- * Use index to restrict rows returned by multi-key index when used with
- non-consecutive keys or OR clauses, so fewer heap accesses
- * Convert function(constant) into a constant for index use
- * Allow LIMIT ability on single-table queries that have no ORDER BY to use
- a matching index
- * Improve LIMIT processing by using index to limit rows processed
- * Have optimizer take LIMIT into account when considering index scans
- * Make index creation use psort code, because it is now faster(Vadim)
- * Allow creation of sort temp tables > 1 Gig
- * Create more system table indexes for faster cache lookups
- * fix indexscan() so it does leak memory by not requiring caller to free
- * Improve _bt_binsrch() to handle equal keys better, remove _bt_firsteq()(Tom)
- * Allow SELECT * FROM tab WHERE int2col = 4 use int2col index
- * Allow optimizer to prefer plans that match ORDER BY
- CACHE
- * Cache most recent query plan(s?)
- * Shared catalog cache, reduce lseek()'s by caching table size in shared area
- * elog() flushes cache, try invalidating just entries from current xact,
- perhaps using invalidation cache
- MISC
- * Allow compression of log and meta data
- * Update pg_statistic table to remove operator column
- * Allow char() not to use variable-sized header to reduce disk size
- * Do async I/O to do better read-ahead of data
- * -Fix memory exhaustion when using many OR's
- * Get faster regex() code from Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.utoronto.ca>
- when it is available
- * Use mmap() rather than SYSV shared memory(?)
- * Process const = const parts of OR clause in separate pass
- * Make oid use oidin/oidout not int4in/int4out in pg_type.h
- * Improve Subplan list handling
- * Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
- * use fmgr_info()/fmgr_faddr() instead of fmgr() calls in high-traffic
- places, like GROUP BY, UNIQUE, index processing, etc.
- * improve dynamic memory allocation by introducing tuple-context memory
- allocation
- * fix memory leak in cache code when non-existant table is referenced
- * In WHERE tab1.x=3 AND tab1.x=tab2.y, add tab2.y=3
- * pass atttypmod through parser in more cases(Bruce)
- * remove duplicate type in/out functions for disk and net
- SOURCE CODE
- -----------
- * Add use of 'const' for varibles in source tree
- * Fix C optimizer problem where fmgr_ptr calls return different types
- * Add needed includes and removed unneede include files(Bruce)
- * Make configure --enable-debug add -g on compile line
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- Developers who have claimed items are:
- --------------------------------------
- * Billy is Billy G. Allie <Bill.Allie@mug.org>
- * Brook is Brook Milligan <brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu>
- * Bruce is Bruce Momjian<maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
- * Bryan is Bryan Henderson<bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>
- * D'Arcy is D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
- * David is David Hartwig <daveh@insightdist.com>
- * Edmund is Edmund Mergl <E.Mergl@bawue.de>
- * Goran is Goran Thyni <goran@kyla.kiruna.se>
- * Hiroshi is Hiroshi Inoue<Inoue@tpf.co.jp>
- * Jan is Jan Wieck <wieck@sapserv.debis.de>
- * Marc is Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
- * Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
- * Michael is Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
- * Oleg is Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
- * Peter is Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
- * Ryan is Ryan Bradetich <rbrad@hpb50023.boi.hp.com>
- * Stefan Simkovics <ssimkovi@rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at>
- * Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
- * Tom is Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
- * Thomas is Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
- * TomH is Tom I Helbekkmo <tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO>
- * Vadim is "Vadim B. Mikheev" <vadim@krs.ru>