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2008-04-16Update most recent release to 8.3.1.Bruce Momjian
2008-04-16Update TODO wording.Bruce Momjian
2008-04-16Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> * Implement the non-threaded Avahi service discovery protocol > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg00939.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-02/msg00097.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg01211.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-04/msg00001.php
2008-04-15Re-add terminate TODO item.Bruce Momjian
2008-04-15Revert addition of pg_terminate_backend() because of race conditions.Bruce Momjian
2008-04-15Add TODO item:Bruce Momjian
< * Allow NOTIFY in rules involving conditionals > > o Allow NOTIFY in rules involving conditionals > o Improve LISTEN concurrency > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg01106.php
2008-04-15Move LISTEN/NOTIFY items to separate TODO section.Bruce Momjian
2008-04-15Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> * Allow XML to accept more liberal DOCTYPE specifications > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-02/msg00347.php
2008-04-15Done:Bruce Momjian
> * -Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions either
2008-04-14Add URL for:Bruce Momjian
* Consider automatic caching of statements at various levels: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00823.php
2008-04-11Update wording:Bruce Momjian
< * Allow functions to control the transaction state > * Allow calling of a procedure outside a SELECT that can control the > transaction state
2008-04-11Changed TODO wording:Bruce Momjian
< * Support procedures, which return no value > * Allow functions to control the transaction state
2008-04-11Add TODO:Bruce Momjian
> * Support procedures, which return no value > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-10/msg01375.php
2008-04-11Update URLs for dead space map.Bruce Momjian
2008-04-10Add TODO URLs moved from open items queue:Bruce Momjian
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00265.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01214.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-05/msg00013.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-07/msg00741.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-08/msg00014.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-08/msg00487.php > * Allow index scans to return matching index keys > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01079.php > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-10/msg00166.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-01/msg00049.php
2008-04-09Update text FAQ.Bruce Momjian
2008-04-09Revert sentence removal from nickname in FAQ.Bruce Momjian
2008-04-09Remove mention of the Berkeley origins of the alias "Postgres" ---Bruce Momjian
seems unnecessary to mention in the FAQ, per discussion on IRC.
2008-04-07Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > o Add ability to obfuscate function bodies > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-01/msg00125.php
2008-04-03Add Wiki URLs for:Bruce Momjian
< * Allow encoding on a per-column basis optionally using the ICU library > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo:Collate > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo:ICU
2008-04-03Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> * Improve how ANALYZE computes in-doubt tuples > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg00771.php >
2008-04-03Add URLs for:Bruce Momjian
* Add SQL:2003 WITH RECURSIVE (hierarchical) queries to SELECT > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-01/msg00105.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-03/msg00327.php
2008-04-02Remove due to survey/discussion:Bruce Momjian
< < * Prefix command-line utilities like createuser with 'pg_' < < http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-06/msg00025.php <
2008-03-28Done:Bruce Momjian
> * -Add ability to trigger on TRUNCATE
2008-03-28Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > o Add CASE capability to language (already in SQL) > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00696.php > >
2008-03-28Add:Bruce Momjian
> * Allow one transaction to see tuples using the snapshot of another > transaction > > This would assist multiple backends in working together. > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00400.php
2008-03-27Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Consider being smarter about memory and external files used during > sorts > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg01101.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-12/msg00045.php
2008-03-27Add URL for:Bruce Momjian
* Consider allowing control of upper/lower case folding of unquoted identifiers > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg00849.php
2008-03-26Update TODO:Bruce Momjian
< o Consider invalidating the cache or keeping seperate cached < copies when search_path changes > o Consider keeping seperate cached copies when search_path changes
2008-03-26Added to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Consider transaction start/end performance improvements > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-07/msg00948.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg00361.php
2008-03-25Done:Bruce Momjian
> * -Avoid tuple some tuple copying in sort routines
2008-03-25Update TODO wording:Bruce Momjian
* Simplify integer cross-data-type operators
2008-03-25Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Add SQL-standard array_agg() and unnest() array functions > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg01017.php >
2008-03-25Add to pl/pgsql TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > o Consider invalidating the cache or keeping seperate cached > copies when search_path changes > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg01009.php
2008-03-25Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Add more cross-data-type operators > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-01/msg00189.php
2008-03-25Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> * Detect deadlocks involving LockBufferForCleanup() > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00873.php
2008-03-25Add to psql TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > o Improve display if enums > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00826.php > >
2008-03-25Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > o Fix port/rint.c to be spec-compliant > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00808.php
2008-03-25Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Consider sorting entries before inserting into btree index > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-01/msg01010.php
2008-03-25Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Improve detection of shared memory segments being used by other > FreeBSD jails > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00656.php
2008-03-25Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Move pgfoundry's xlogdump to /contrib and have it rely more closely > on the WAL backend code > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg00035.php >
2008-03-25Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Have resource managers report the duration of their status changes > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-10/msg01468.php
2008-03-25Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Be more aggressive about creating WAL files > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-10/msg01325.php
2008-03-25Add:Bruce Momjian
> o Prevent concurrent CREATE TABLE table1 from sometimes returning > a cryptic error message > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-10/msg00169.php
2008-03-25Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Have /contrib/dblink reuse unnamed connections > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-10/msg00895.php
2008-03-25Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> * Remove old-style routines for manipulating tuples > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-10/msg00851.php
2008-03-25Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Create three versions of libpgport to simplify client code > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-10/msg00154.php >
2008-03-25Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Fix regular expression bug when using complex back-references > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-10/msg00000.php
2008-03-24Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Allow xml arrays to be cast to other data types > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00981.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-10/msg00231.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg00471.php >
2008-03-24Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Research reducing deTOASTing in more places > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00895.php
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