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| author | Bruce Momjian | 1998-03-01 22:26:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian | 1998-03-01 22:26:42 +0000 |
| commit | bb63cb8f795975bd1d9c21ad17b84c6ca0bb017b (patch) | |
| tree | 7a98bac7000082df6151f3133f5e4a23d50e67f0 /doc/TODO | |
| parent | 09b187598cce0f23e4e8d5587e193ceca26c6afd (diff) | |
Update for release. Add mention of new manuals.
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ TODO list for PostgreSQL ======================== -Last updated: Sun Mar 1 00:18:59 EST 1998 +Last updated: Sun Mar 1 17:14:36 EST 1998 Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us) @@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ ENHANCEMENTS * add the concept of dataspaces * add DECIMAL, NUMERIC, DOUBLE PRECISION, BIT, BIT VARYING * NCHAR (as distinguished from ordinary varchar), + * DOMAIN capability * Allow compression of large fields or a compressed field type * Fix the rules system(Jan?,Soo-Ho) * robust @@ -216,13 +217,18 @@ System tables continue to be SELECT-able by PUBLIC. We also have real deadlock detection code. No more sixty-second timeouts. And the new locking code implements a FIFO better, so there -should be less resource starvation during heavy use. For performance -reasons, time travel is gone, but can be implemented using triggers (see -pgsql/contrib/spi/README). Please check out the new \d command for -types, operators, etc. Also, views have their own permissions now, not -based on the underlying tables, so permissions on them have to be set -separately. Check /pgsql/interfaces for some new ways to talk to -PostgreSQL. +should be less resource starvation during heavy use. + +Many complaints have been made about inadequate documenation in previous +releases. Thomas has put much effort into many new manuals for this +release. Check out the /doc directory. + +For performance reasons, time travel is gone, but can be implemented +using triggers (see pgsql/contrib/spi/README). Please check out the new +\d command for types, operators, etc. Also, views have their own +permissions now, not based on the underlying tables, so permissions on +them have to be set separately. Check /pgsql/interfaces for some new +ways to talk to PostgreSQL. This is the first release that really required an explaination for existing users. In many ways, this was necessary because the new |