TODO list for PostgreSQL
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-Last updated: Mon Feb 17 13:36:55 EST 2003
+Last updated: Mon Feb 17 13:46:07 EST 2003
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
rows with DEFAULT value
o ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN column SERIAL doesn't create sequence because
of the item above
- o Add ALTER TABLE tab SET WITHOUT OIDS
+ o -Add ALTER TABLE tab SET WITHOUT OIDS (Rod)
* Add ALTER SEQUENCE to modify min/max/increment/cache/cycle values
* CLUSTER
o Automatically maintain clustering on a table
- o Allow CLUSTER to cluster all tables, remove clusterdb
+ o Allow CLUSTER to cluster all tables (Alvaro Herrera)
* COPY
o Allow dump/load of CSV format
* Allow psql to show transaction status if backend protocol changes made
* Add XML interface: psql, pg_dump, COPY, separate server (?)
* -Add schema, cast, and conversion backslash commands to psql (Christopher)
-* Allow pg_dump to dump a specific schema
+* Allow pg_dump to dump a specific schema (Neil Conway)
* Allow psql to do table completion for SELECT * FROM schema_part and
table completion for SELECT * FROM schema_name.
* Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
* -Add hash for evaluating GROUP BY aggregates (Tom)
* Allow merge and hash joins on expressions not just simple variables (Tom)
-* Make IN/NOT IN have similar performance to EXISTS/NOT EXISTS [exists]
+* Make IN/NOT IN have similar performance to EXISTS/NOT EXISTS (Tom)
* Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc. [optimizer]
* Allow ORDER BY ... LIMIT to select top values without sort or index
using a sequential scan for highest/lowest values (Oleg)
* Peter M is Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk> of Retep Software
* Peter E is Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
* Philip is Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> of Albatross Consulting Pty. Ltd.
-* Rod is Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>
+* Rod is Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca)>
* Ross is Ross J. Reedstrom <reedstrm@wallace.ece.rice.edu>
* Stephan is Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
* Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> of Software Research Assoc.