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@@ -1,89 +1,98 @@ TODO list for PostgreSQL ======================== -Last updated: Fri Oct 17 08:18:16 EDT 1997 +Last updated: Sun Feb 1 15:08:57 EST 1998 Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian ([email protected]) The most recent version of this document can be viewed at the PostgreSQL WWW site, http://www.postgreSQL.org. -THE CHANGES FOR 6.2 AND 6.2.1 APPEAR AT THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT +THE CHANGES FOR 6.3 APPEAR AT THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT + +A dash(-) marks changes to be in the next release. Developers who have claimed items are: ------------------------------------- * Bruce is Bruce Momjian<[email protected]> * Bryan is Bryan Henderson<[email protected]> + * D'Arcy is D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[email protected]> * Dan is Dan McGuirk <[email protected]> * Daniel is Daniel Kalchev <[email protected]> * Darren is Darren King <[email protected]> * Edmund is Edmund Mergl <[email protected]> * Erich Stamberger <[email protected]> * Gerhard is Gerhard Reithofer <[email protected]> + * Goran is Goran Thyni <[email protected]> + * Henry is Henry B. Hotz <[email protected]> * Igor is Igor <[email protected]> + * Jan is Jan Wieck <[email protected]> * Jun is Jun Kuwamura <[email protected]> * Kurt is "Kurt J. Lidl" <[email protected]> + * Marc is Marc Fournier <[email protected]> * Martin is Martin S. Utesch <[email protected]> * Oleg is Oleg Bartunov <[email protected]> * Paul is Paul M. Aoki <[email protected]> * Patrick is Patrick van Kleef <[email protected]> + * Peter is Peter T Mount <[email protected]> * Raymond is Raymond Toy <[email protected]> * Soo-Ho Ok <[email protected]> * Stefan Simkovics <[email protected]> * Sven is Sven Verdoolaege <[email protected]> * Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <[email protected]> * Thomas is Thomas Lockhart <[email protected]> + * Todd is Todd Brandys is <[email protected]> * Vadim is "Vadim B. Mikheev" <[email protected]> * Vivek is Vivek Khera <[email protected]> RELIABILITY ----------- -* -Overhaul mdmgr/smgr to fix double unlinking and double opens, cleanup(Erich) -* -Overhaul bufmgr/lockmgr/transaction manager(Vadim) -* Fix CLUSTER +* Overhaul mdmgr/smgr to fix double unlinking and double opens, cleanup +* Overhaul bufmgr/lockmgr/transaction manager +* -Fix CLUSTER * Remove EXTEND? -* Fix all NULL features, allow psql to print nulls meaningfully -* Fix compile and security of Kerberos/GSSAPI code (Daniel Kalchev?) -* COUNT on VIEW always returns zero (maybe because there is no oid for views?) +* -Aggregates on VIEW always returns zero (maybe because there is no oid for views?) * CREATE VIEW requires super-user priviledge -* can lo_export()/lo_import() read/write anywhere, causing a security problem? +* Can lo_export()/lo_import() read/write anywhere, causing a security problem? * Tables that start with xinv confused to be large objects * Two and three dimmensional arrays display improperly, missing {} -* Add GROUP BY and HAVING to INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM table2 +* -Add GROUP BY to INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM table2 * lo_unlink() crashes server -* Allow variable casts with BETWEEN 'today'::asbtime AND 'today'::abstime * Prevent auto-table reference, like SELECT table.col WHERE col = 3 (?) -* Remove un-needed malloc() calls and replace with palloc(). +* -Remove un-needed malloc() calls and replace with palloc(). * SELECT * FROM table WHERE int4_column = '1' fails * SELECT a[1] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[1] -* SELECT COUNT(*) FROM TAB1, TAB2 fails -* SELECT SUM(2+2) FROM table dumps core +* -SELECT COUNT(*) FROM TAB1, TAB2 fails +* -SELECT SUM(2+2) FROM table dumps core * UPDATE table SET table.value = 3 fails -* UPDATE key_table SET keyval=max(reftab.NUM)+1 WHERE tblname='reftab' fails -* INSERT INTO ... SELECT DISTINCT ... generates error on DISTINCT -* INSERT INTO table SELECT id, count(*) FROM table2 GROUP BY id generate error +* -UPDATE key_table SET keyval=count(reftab.num) fails +* -INSERT INTO ... SELECT DISTINCT ... does not accept DISTINCT +* -INSERT INTO table SELECT id, count(*) FROM table2 GROUP BY id generates error +* Make pg_dump preserve inheritance column order, do non-inherits first +* User who can create databases can modify pg_database table ENHANCEMENTS ------------ * Replace table-level locking with row or page-level locking(Vadim) -* PRIMARY KEY during table creation +* -PRIMARY KEY during table creation(Thomas) * Add SERIAL type -* Preserve GRANT/REVOKE/pg_group in pg_dump -* Transaction log +* -Preserve GRANT/REVOKE/pg_group in pg_dump +* Transaction log, so re-do log can be on a separate disk +* Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance * More access control over who can create tables and access the database -* Add full ANSI SQL capabilities (Stefan) - * add subselects, possibility using temporary SQL functions +* Add full ANSI SQL capabilities + * -add subselects(Vadim) * Implement HAVING clause - * Implement EXISTS qualifier - * report "Not implemented" if valid syntax is supplied + * -Implement EXISTS qualifier + * -report "Not implemented" if valid syntax is supplied * add OUTER joins, left and right (Thomas) * make VIEWs updateable where possible - * add UNIONS, INTERSECTS, SUBTRACTS - * add temporary tables + * -add UNIONS(Bruce) + * add INTERSECTS, SUBTRACTS + * add temporary tables(Bruce) * add sql3 recursive unions * add the concept of dataspaces - * allow conversion type casts on SELECT target fields * add DECIMAL, NUMERIC, DOUBLE PRECISION, BIT, BIT VARYING - * NCHAR (as distinguished from ordinary varchar), + * NCHAR (as distinguished from ordinary varchar), * Allow compression of large fields or a compressed field type * Fix the rules system(Jan?,Soo-Ho) * robust @@ -92,9 +101,9 @@ ENHANCEMENTS * Full set of text operations and functions * word searches, concat,max() on text, char * Large objects - * overwriting blocks has problems - * there are other problems, too. - * Fix large object mapping scheme + * -overwriting blocks has problems(Peter) + * -there are other problems, too.(Peter) + * Fix large object mapping scheme, own reltype * not to stuff everything as files in a single directory * Better interface for adding to pg_group * Make MONEY/DECIMAL have a defined precision @@ -102,194 +111,253 @@ ENHANCEMENTS * Threaded version of the server or libpq * Allow libpq to cancel query requests * Add REGEX internationalization -* Add other language types for built-in functions - * expand to allow tcl, perl, java, +* -Add other language types for built-in functions + * expand to allow tcl, perl, java * generalize the function manager switch to pass * function sources to interpreter engines. -* remove time-travel feature(Vadim) -* reduce system column overhead(Vadmin) -* remove pg_time table(Vadim) +* -remove time-travel feature(Vadim) +* -reduce system column overhead(Vadmin) +* -remove pg_time table(Vadim) * allow row re-use without vacuum, maybe?(Vadim) -* can't vacuum large objects -* can't reduce index file size with vacuum -* Remove restriction that ORDER BY field must be in SELECT list(?) -* Allow queries about owner of tables, like: - * SELECT u.usesysid FROM postgres.pg_user u; +* Remove restriction that ORDER BY field must be in SELECT list * Add word index for text fields, maybe with trigrams, i.e.: * ' (cat | dog) & ! fox ' meaning text has cat or dog, but not fox -* Allow readline-type or editor command editing of multi-line SQL commands * Populate backend status area and write program to dump status data * Add ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN feature -* Remove stale files upon startup(Vivek) -* Add command to show privileges * Allow INSERT INTO ... SELECT to convert column types -* Add syslog functionality +* Add syslog functionality(Marc) * Add STDDEV/VARIANCE() function for standard deviation computation/variance -* Add table/column/function discription table indexed by oid -* add pg_type attribute to identify types that need length (bpchar, varchar) +* -Add table/column/function discription table indexed by oid +* -add pg_type attribute to identify types that need length (bpchar, varchar) * add UNIQUE capability to non-btree indexes -* make large objects have their own reltype * make number of backends a config parameter, storage/sinvaladt.h:MaxBackendId * certain indexes will not shrink, i.e. oid indexes with many inserts * make NULL's come out at the beginning or end depending on the ORDER BY direction * change the library/backend interface to use network byte order -* allow unix domain sockets for local connections for performance and security -* Add PAGER for psql's \dt and \d tablename -* Make timezone set-able by client applications(Thomas) +* -allow unix domain sockets for local connections for performance and security +* -Add PAGER for psql's \dt, \d, \z tablename +* -Make timezone set-able by client applications(Thomas) * Restore unused oid's on backend exit if no one else has gotten oids +* remove non-standard types from the system, and make them loadable +* -make reads queue behind a write waiting for a lock(Bruce) +* -add LOCK statement(Bruce) +* -add report of offending line when COPY command fails +* have UPDATE/DELETE clean out indexes +* -allow varchar() to only store used bytes, not maximum +* allow WHERE restriction on ctid +* allow pg_descriptions when creating types, tables, columns, and functions +* Fix compile and security of Kerberos/GSSAPI code +* Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from ""(?) +* Allow variable casts with BETWEEN 'today'::asbtime AND 'today'::abstime +* Allow VIEW permissions to be set separately from the underlying tables +* Allow text, char(), and varchar() overhead to be only 2 bytes, not 4 bytes PERFORMANCE ----------- -* Use indexes in ORDER BY -* Allow LIKE/wildcard matches to use indexes if the wildcard character is not first +* Use indexes in ORDER BY, min(), max() +* -Allow LIKE/wildcard matches to use indexes if the wildcard character is not first * Optimizing disjunctive queries * Fix bushy-plans (Martin) * Other optimizer bugs -* Is fsync use optimized? +* Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries * Cache most recent query plan(s?) * Shared catalog cache, reduce lseek()'s by caching table size in shared area * Allow compression of log and meta data * Add FILLFACTOR to index creation * Allow indexes to be used with OR clauses(Vadim) * update pg_statistic table to remove operator column +* make index creation use psort code, because it is now faster(Vadim) +* remove fork()/exec() of backend and make it just fork() DOCUMENTATION ------------- * Update usermanual source(many) -* remove time-travel in documentation(Bruce) * added features used in grammer but not in docs, like :: and CAST -* update libpq++ manual page +* update libpq++ and pginterface manual page +* Add keyword list to documentation, already in /tools -PORTABILITY ------------ - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +============================================================================= - CHANGES IN THE 6.2.1 RELEASE +CHANGES IN THE 6.3 RELEASE +-------------------------- -Changes in this release ------------------------ -Allow TIME and TYPE column names(Thomas) -Allow larger range of true/false as boolean values(Thomas) -Support output of "now" and "current"(Thomas) -Handle DEFAULT with INSERT of NULL properly(Vadim) -Fix for relation reference counts problem in buffer manager(Vadim) -Allow strings to span lines, like ANSI(Thomas) -Fix for backward cursor with ORDER BY(Vadim) -Fix avg(cash) computation(Thomas) -Fix for specifying a column twice in ORDER/GROUP BY(Vadim) -Documented new libpq function to return affected rows, PQcmdTuples(Bruce) -Trigger function for inserting user names for INSERT/UPDATE(Brook Milligan) - - - CHANGES IN THE 6.2 RELEASE +Developers who have claimed items are: +------------------------------------- + * Billy is Billy G. Allie <[email protected]> + * Brook is Brook Milligan + * Bruce is Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> + * D'Arcy is D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[email protected]> + * Dan is Dan McGuirk <[email protected]> + * Darren is Darren King <[email protected]> + * Goran is Goran Thyni <[email protected]> + * Henry is Henry B. Hotz <[email protected]> + * James is James Hughes <[email protected]> + * Jan is Jan Wieck <[email protected]> + * Jeroen is Jeroen van Vianen <[email protected]> + * Marc is Marc Fournier <[email protected]> + * Martin is Martin S. Utesch <[email protected]> + * Matt is Matt Maycock <[email protected]> + * Peter is Peter T Mount <[email protected]> + * Phil is Phil Thompson <[email protected]> + * Ryan is Ryan Kirkpatrick <[email protected]> + * Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <[email protected]> + * Thomas is Thomas Lockhart <[email protected]> + * TomH is Tom I Helbekkmo <[email protected]> + * TomS is Tom Szybist + * Todd is Todd Brandys is <[email protected]> + * Travis is Travis Melhiser <[email protected]> + * Vadim is "Vadim B. Mikheev" <[email protected]> Bug Fixes --------- -Fix problems with pg_dump for inheritance, sequences, archive tables(Bruce) -Fix compile errors on overflow due to shifts, unsigned, and bad prototypes - from Solaris(Diab Jerius) -Fix bugs in geometric line arithmetic (bad intersection calculations)(Thomas) -Check for geometric intersections at endpoints to avoid rounding ugliness(Thomas) -Catch non-functional delete attempts(Vadim) -Change time function names to be more consistent(Michael Reifenberg) -Check for zero divides(Michael Reifenberg) -Fix very old bug which made tuples changed/inserted by a commnd - visible to the command itself (so we had multiple update of - updated tuples, etc)(Vadim) -Fix for SELECT null, 'fail' FROM pg_am (Patrick) -SELECT NULL as EMPTY_FIELD now allowed(Patrick) -Remove un-needed signal stuff from contrib/pginterface -Fix OR (where x <> 1 or x isnull didn't return tuples with x NULL) (Vadim) -Fix time_cmp function (Vadim) -Fix handling of functions with non-attribute first argument in - WHERE clauses (Vadim) -Fix GROUP BY when order of entries is different from order - in target list (Vadim) -Fix pg_dump for aggregates without sfunc1 (Vadim) +Fix binary cursors broken by MOVE implementation(Vadim) +Fix for tcl library crash(Jan) +Fix for array handling, from Gerhard Hintermayer +Fix acl error, and remove duplicate pqtrace(Bruce) +Fix psql \e for empty file(Bruce) +Fix for textcat on varchar() fields(Bruce) +Fix for DBT Sendproc (Zeugswetter Andres) +Fix vacuum analyze syntax problem(Bruce) +Fix for international identifiers(Tatsuo) +Fix aggregates on inherited tables(Bruce) +Fix substr() for out-of-bounds data +Fix for select 1=1 or 2=2, select 1=1 and 2=2, and select sum(2+2)(Bruce) +Fix notty output to show status result. -q option still turns it off(Bruce) +Fix for count(*), aggs with views and multiple tables and sum(3)(Bruce) +Fix cluster(Bruce) +Fix for PQtrace start/stop several times(Bruce) +Fix a variety of locking problems like newer lock waiters getting + lock before older waiters, and having readlock people not share + locks if a writer is waiting for a lock, and waiting writers not + getting priority over waiting readers(Bruce) +Fix crashes in psql when executing queries from external files(James) +Fix problem with multiple order by columns, with the first one having + NULL values(Jeroen) +Use correct hash table support functions for float8 and int4(Thomas) +Re-enable JOIN= option in CREATE OPERATOR statement (Thomas) +Change precedence for boolean operators to match expected behavior(Thomas) +Generate elog(ERROR) on over-large integer(Bruce) +Allow multiple-argument functions in constraint clauses(Thomas) +Check boolean input literals for 'true','false','yes','no','1','0' + and throw elog(ERROR) if unrecognized(Thomas) + Enhancements ------------ -Default genetic optimizer GEQO parameter is now 8(Bruce) -Allow use parameters in target list having aggregates in functions(Vadim) -Added JDBC driver as an interface(Adrian & Peter) -pg_password utility -Return number of tuples inserted/affected by INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE etc.(Vadim) -Triggers implemented with CREATE TRIGGER (SQL3)(Vadim) -SPI (Server Programming Interface) allows execution of queries inside - C-functions (Vadim) -NOT NULL implemented (SQL92)(Robson Paniago de Miranda) -Include reserved words for string handling, outer joins, and unions(Thomas) -Implement extended comments ("/* ... */") using exclusive states(Thomas) -Add "//" single-line comments(Bruce) -Remove some restrictions on characters in operator names(Thomas) -DEFAULT and CONSTRAINT for tables implemented (SQL92)(Vadim & Thomas) -Add text concatenation operator and function (SQL92)(Thomas) -Support WITH TIME ZONE syntax (SQL92)(Thomas) -Support INTERVAL <unit> TO <unit> syntax (SQL92)(Thomas) -Define types DOUBLE PRECISION, INTERVAL, CHARACTER, - and CHARACTER VARYING (SQL92)(Thomas) -Define type FLOAT(p) and rudimentary DECIMAL(p,s), NUMERIC(p,s) (SQL92)(Thomas) -Define EXTRACT(), POSITION(), SUBSTRING(), and TRIM() (SQL92)(Thomas) -Define CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP (SQL92)(Thomas) -Add syntax and warnings for UNION, HAVING, INNER and OUTER JOIN (SQL92)(Thomas) -Add more reserved words, mostly for SQL92 compliance(Thomas) -Allow hh:mm:ss time entry for timespan/reltime types(Thomas) -Add center() routines for lseg, path, polygon(Thomas) -Add distance() routines for circle-polygon, polygon-polygon(Thomas) -Check explicitly for points and polygons contained within polygons - using an axis-crossing algorithm(Thomas) -Add routine to convert circle-box(Thomas) -Merge conflicting operators for different geometric data types(Thomas) -Replace distance operator "<===>" with "<->"(Thomas) -Replace "above" operator "!^" with ">^" and "below" operator "!|" with "<^"(Thomas) -Add routines for text trimming on both ends, substring, and string position(Thomas) -Added conversion routines circle(box) and poly(circle)(Thomas) -Allow internal sorts to be stored in memory rather than in files(Bruce & Vadim) -Allow functions and operators on internally-identical types to succeed(Bruce) -Speed up backend startup after profiling analysis(Bruce) -Inline frequently called functions for performance(Bruce) -Reduce open() calls(Bruce) -psql: Add PAGER for \h and \?,\C fix -Fix for psql pager when no tty(Bruce) -New entab utility(Bruce) -General trigger functions for referential integrity (Vadim) -General trigger functions for time travel (Vadim) -General trigger functions for AUTOINCREMENT/IDENTITY feature (Vadim) -MOVE implementation (Vadim) +Real deadlock detection, no more timeouts(Bruce) +<NOT DONE YET> Subselects with EXISTS, IN, ALL, ANY keywords (Vadim, Bruce, Thomas) +Add SQL92 "constants" CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, + CURRENT_USER(Thomas) +Speedup by inlining some frequently-called functions +Modify constraint syntax to be SQL92-compliant(Thomas) +Implement SQL92 PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE clauses using indices(Thomas) +Recognize SQL92 syntax for FOREIGN KEY. Throw elog notice(Thomas) +Allow NOT NULL UNIQUE constraint clause (each allowed separately before)(Thomas) +Allow Postgres-style casting ("::") of non-constants(Thomas) +Add support for SQL3 TRUE and FALSE boolean constants(Thomas) +Support SQL92 syntax for IS TRUE/IS FALSE/IS NOT TRUE/IS NOT FALSE(Thomas) +Allow shorter strings for boolean literals (e.g. "t", "tr", "tru")(Thomas) +Allow SQL92 delimited identifiers(Thomas) +Implement SQL92 binary and hexadecimal string decoding (b'10' and x'1F')(Thomas) +Support SQL92 syntax for type coercion of literal strings + (e.g. "DATETIME 'now'")(Thomas) +Add conversions for int2, int4, and OID types to and from text(Thomas) +Use shared lock when building indices(Vadim) +Free memory allocated for an user query inside transaction block after + this query is done, was turned off in <= 6.2.1(Vadim) +New SQL statement CREATE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE(Jan) +New PostgreSQL Procedural Language (PL) backend interface(Jan) +Rename pg_dump -H option to -h(Bruce) +Add Java support for passwords, European dates(Peter) +Use indices for LIKE and ~, !~ operations(Bruce) +Add hash functions for datetime and timespan(Thomas) +Time Travel removed(Vadim, Bruce) +Add paging for \d and \z, and fix \i(Bruce) +Add Unix domain socket support to backend and to frontend library(Goran) +Implement CREATE DATABASE/WITH LOCATION and initlocation utility(Thomas) +Allow more SQL92 and/or Postgres reserved words as column identifiers(Thomas) +Augment support for SQL92 SET TIME ZONE...(Thomas) +SET/SHOW/RESET TIME ZONE uses TZ backend environment variable(Thomas) +Implement SET keyword = DEFAULT and SET TIME ZONE DEFAULT(Thomas) +Enable SET TIME ZONE using TZ environment variable(Thomas) +Add PGDATESTYLE environment variable to frontend and backend initialization(Thomas) +Add PGTZ, PGCOSTHEAP, PGCOSTINDEX, PGRPLANS, PGGEQO + frontend library initialization environment variables(Thomas) +Regression tests time zone automatically set with "setenv PGTZ PST8PDT"(Thomas) +Add pg_description table for info on tables, columns, operators, types, and + aggregates(Bruce) +Increase 16 char limit on system table/index names to 32 characters(Bruce) +Rename system indices(Bruce) +Add 'GERMAN' option to SET DATESTYLE(Thomas) +Define an "ISO-style" timespan output format with "hh:mm:ss" fields(Thomas) +Allow fractional values for delta times (e.g. '2.5 days')(Thomas) +Validate numeric input more carefully for delta times(Thomas) +Implement day of year as possible input to date_part()(Thomas) +Define timespan_finite() and text_timespan() functions(Thomas) +Remove archive stuff(Bruce) +Allow for a pg_password authentication database that is separate from + the system password file(Todd) +Dump ACLs, GRANT, REVOKE permissions(Matt) +Define text, varchar, and bpchar string length functions(Thomas) +Fix Query handling for inheritance, and cost computations(Bruce) +Implement CREATE TABLE/AS SELECT (alternative to SELECT/INTO)(Thomas) +Allow NOT, IS NULL, IS NOT NULL in constraints(Thomas) +Implement UNIONs for SELECT(Bruce) +Add UNION, GROUP, DISTINCT to INSERT(Bruce) +varchar() stores only necessary bytes on disk(Bruce) +Fix for BLOBs(Peter) +Mega-Patch for JDBC...see README_6.3 for list of changes(Peter) +Allow installation data block size and max tuple size configuration(Darren) +Remove unused "option" from PQconnectdb() +New LOCK command and lock manual page describing deadlocks(Bruce) +Add new psql \da, \dd, \df, \do, \dS, and \dT commands(Bruce) +Enhance psql \z to show sequences(Bruce) +Show NOT NULL and DEFAULT in psql \d table(Bruce) +New psql .psqlrc file startup(Andrew) +Modify sample startup script in contrib/linux to show syslog(Thomas) +New types for IP and MAC addresses in contrib/ip_and_mac(TomH) +Unix system time conversions with date/time types in contrib/unixdate(Thomas) +Update of contrib stuff(Massimo) +Add Unix socket support to DBD::Pg(Goran) +New python interface (PyGreSQL 2.0)(D'Arcy) +New frontend/backend protocol has a version number, network byte order(Phil) +Security features in pg_hba.conf enhanced and documented, many cleanups(Phil) +New HTML and Postscript documentation(Thomas) + Source Tree Changes ------------------- -HPUX 10 patches (Vladimir Turin) -Added SCO support, (Daniel Harris) -mkLinux patches (Tatsuo Ishii) -Change geometric box terminology from "length" to "width"(Thomas) -Deprecate temporary unstored slope fields in geometric code(Thomas) -Remove restart instructions from INSTALL(Bruce) -Look in /usr/ucb first for install(Bruce) -Fix c++ copy example code(Thomas) -Add -o to psql manual page(Bruce) -Prevent relname unallocated string length from being copied into database(Bruce) -Cleanup for NAMEDATALEN use(Bruce) -Fix pg_proc names over 15 chars in output(Bruce) -Add strNcpy() function(Bruce) -remove some (void) casts that are unnecessary(Bruce) -new interfaces directory(Marc) -Replace fopen() calls with calls to fd.c functions(Bruce) -Make functions static where possible(Bruce) -enclose unused functions in #ifdef NOT_USED(Bruce) -Remove call to difftime() in timestamp support to fix SunOS(Bruce & Thomas) -Changes for Digital Unix -Portability fix for pg_dumpall(Bruce) -Rename pg_attribute.attnvals to attdisbursion(Bruce) -"intro/unix" manual page now "pgintro"(Bruce) -"built-in" manual page now "pgbuiltin"(Bruce) -"drop" manual page now "drop_table"(Bruce) -Add "create_trigger", "drop_trigger" manual pages(Thomas) -Add constraints regression test(Vadim & Thomas) -Add comments syntax regression test(Thomas) -Add PGINDENT and support program(Bruce) -Massive commit to run PGINDENT on all *.c and *.h files(Bruce) -Files moved to /src/tools directory(Bruce) -SPI and Trigger programming guides (Vadim & D'Arcy) +Add new html development tools, and flow chart in /tools/backend +Fix for SCO compiles +Stratus computer port "Gillies, Robert" <[email protected]> +Added support for shlib for BSD44_derived & i386_solaris +Make configure more automated(Brook) +Add script to check regression test results +Break parser functions into smaller files, group together(Bruce) +Rename heap_create to heap_create_and_catalog, rename heap_creatr + to heap_create()(Bruce) +Sparc/Linux patch for locking(TomS) +Remove PORTNAME and reorganize port-specific stuff(Marc) +Add optimizer README file(Bruce) +Remove some recursion in optimizer and clean up some code there(Bruce) +Fix for NetBSD locking(Henry) +Fix for libptcl make(Tatsuo) +AIX patch(Darren) +Change IS TRUE, IS FALSE, ... to expressions using "=" rather than + function calls to istrue() or isfalse() to allow optimization(Thomas) +Various fixes NetBSD/Sparc related(TomH) +Alpha linux locking(Travis,Ryan) +Change elog(WARN) to elog(ERROR)(Bruce) +FAQ for FreeBSD(Marc) +Bring in the PostODBC source tree as part of our standard distribution(Marc) +A minor patch for HP/UX 10 vs 9(Stan) +New pg_attribute.atttypmod for type-specific info like varchar length(Bruce) +Unixware patches(Billy) +New i386 'lock' for spin lock asm(Billy) +Support for multiplexed backends is removed +Start an OpenBSD port +Start an AUX port +Start a Cygnus port +Add string functions to regression suite(Thomas) +Expand a few function names formerly truncated to 16 characters(Thomas) |