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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
A dash (-) marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 7.2 release.
* -SELECT pg_class FROM pg_class generates strange error (Bruce)
* PL/PgSQL does not handle quoted mixed-case identifiers
* Add replication of distributed databases [replication]
o load balancing
o master/slave replication
o multi-master replication
o partition data across servers
o sample implementation in contrib/rserv
o queries across databases or servers (two-phase commit)
* Point-in-time data recovery using backup and write-ahead log
* Improve control over user privileges, including table creation and
* -Permission to DELETE table also allows UPDATE (Peter E)
* Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
* -Allow international error message support and add error codes[elog](Peter E)
* -Remove unused sort files on postmaster startup (Bruce)
* Remove unreferenced table files and temp tables during database vacuum
or postmaster startup
* -Remove unreferenced sort files during postmaster startup (Bruce)
* -Better document pg_hba.conf host-based authentication (Bruce)
* -Encrpyt passwords in pg_shadow table using MD5 (Bruce, Vince)
* Make it easier to create a database owned by someone who can't createdb
* Remove behavior of postmaster -o after making postmaster/postgres
flags unique
* Allow better handling of numeric constants, type conversion [typeconv]
* Support construction of array result values in expressions
* Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type
* Declare typein/out functions in pg_proc with a special "C string" data type
* SELECT col FROM tab WHERE numeric_col = 10.1 fails, requires quotes
* Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc. [optimizer]
o Allow nulls in arrays
o Allow arrays to be ORDER'ed
o fix array handling in ECPG
o -Add non-large-object binary field (already exists -- bytea)
o -Make binary interface for TOAST columns (base64)
o Improve vacuum of large objects, like /contrib/vacuumlo
o Add security checking for large objects
o Make file in/out interface for TOAST columns, similar to large object
interface (force out-of-line storage and no compression)
o Auto-delete large objects when referencing row is deleted
* Add NCHAR (as distinguished from ordinary varchar),
* Support multiple simultaneous character sets, per SQL92
* -Reject character sequences those are not valid in their charset (Tatsuo)
* -Make functions more multi-byte aware, e.g. trim() (Tatsuo)
* -Make n of CHAR(n)/VARCHAR(n) the number of letters, not bytes (Tatsuo)
* Allow setting database character set without multibyte enabled
* Optimize locale to have minimal performance impact when not used (Peter E)
* Automatically create rules on views so they are updateable, per SQL92 [view]
* Add the functionality for WITH CHECK OPTION clause of CREATE VIEW
* -Evaluate INSERT rules at end of query, rather than beginning (Jan)
* Allow CREATE INDEX zman_index ON test (date_trunc( 'day', zman ) datetime_ops)
fails index can't store constant parameters
* Order duplicate index entries by tid for faster heap lookups
* -Prevent pg_attribute from having duplicate oids for indexes (Tom)
* Allow inherited tables to inherit index, UNIQUE constraint, and primary
key, foreign key [inheritance]
* UNIQUE INDEX on base column not honored on inserts from inherited table
INSERT INTO inherit_table (unique_index_col) VALUES (dup) should fail
[inheritance]
* Certain indexes will not shrink, e.g. oid indexes with many inserts
* Add btree index support for reltime, tinterval, regproc
* Add rtree index support for line, lseg, path, point
* Use indexes for min() and max() or convert to SELECT col FROM tab ORDER
* Use index to restrict rows returned by multi-key index when used with
non-consecutive keys or OR clauses, so fewer heap accesses
* Allow SELECT * FROM tab WHERE int2col = 4 to use int2col index, int8,
* Allow LIKE indexing optimization for non-ASCII locales
* Be smarter about insertion of already-ordered data into btree index
* -Gather more accurate dispersion statistics using indexes (Tom)
* Add deleted bit to index tuples to reduce heap access
* Prevent index uniqueness checks when UPDATE does not modifying column
* -Add unique indexes to pg_shadow.usename and pg_shadow.usesysid or
switch to pg_shadow.oid as user id (Tom)
* -Add unique indexes on pg_database (Tom)
* -Check all system tables and add unique indexes as needed (Tom)
* -Remove unused pg_variable, pg_inheritproc, pg_ipl tables (Bruce)
* Add SIMILAR TO to allow character classes, 'pg_[a-c]%'
* -Allow LOCK TABLE tab1, tab2, tab3 so all tables locked in unison [lock]
* Allow RULE recompilation
* Add BETWEEN ASYMMETRIC/SYMMETRIC
* -Change LIMIT val,val to offset,limit to match MySQL (Bruce)
* -Allow GRANT/REVOKE to handle multiple user/group names
* -Allow CREATEUSER/CREATEDB ordering in CREATE/ALTER USER (Vince)
* Disallow TRUNCATE on tables that are involved in referential constraints
o ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN does not honor DEFAULT and non-CHECK CONSTRAINT
o ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN to inherited table put column in wrong place
o Add ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN feature [drop]
o Add ALTER FUNCTION
o Add ALTER TABLE DROP non-CHECK CONSTRAINT
o -Add ALTER TABLE DROP CHECK CONSTRAINT (Christopher Kings-Lynne)
o ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY (Christopher Kings-Lynne)
o ALTER TABLE ADD UNIQUE (Christopher Kings-Lynne)
o ALTER TABLE table ADD COLUMN column SERIAL doesn't create sequence
o cluster all tables at once
o prevent lose of indexes, permissions, inheritance
o Automatically keep clustering on a table
o -Keep statistics about clustering (Tom) [optimizer]
o Allow specification of column names
o Allow dump/load of CSV format
o Allow BINARY option to SELECT, like we do with DECLARE
o MOVE 0 should not move to end of cursor
o Allow cursors to be DECLAREd/OPENed/CLOSEed outside transactions
o Allow DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF cursor
o Allow INSERT/UPDATE of system-generated oid value for a row
o Allow INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..)
o Allow INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (a, b, c, DEFAULT, x, y, z, ...)
o Disallow missing columns in INSERT ... VALUES, per ANSI
o Allow INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING new.col or old.col, handle
RULE cases (Philip)
o Add SHOW command to display locks
o -Add SHOW command to show all settings
o -Add a global RESET command for use with connection pooling
o Add SET or BEGIN timeout parameter to cancel query
o Add SET REAL_FORMAT and SET DOUBLE_PRECISION_FORMAT using printf args
o Remove SET KSQO option now that OR processing is improved (Tom)
o Add SET PERFORMANCE_TIPS option to suggest INDEX, VACUUM, VACUUM
* -Make NULL's come out at the beginning or end depending on the
ORDER BY direction (Tom)
* Have pg_dump use LEFT OUTER JOIN in multi-table SELECTs
or multiple SELECTS to avoid bad system catalog entries
* Have pg_dump -C dump database location and encoding information
* Allow psql \d to show foreign keys
* Allow psql \d to show temporary table structure
* Add XML interface: psql, pg_dump, COPY, separate server (?)
* -Fix libpq to properly handle socket failures under native MS Win32
o Comprehensive test suite. This may be available already.
o Updateable resultSet (must be done in backend code)
o Improved DatabaseMetaData [java]
o JDBC-standard BLOB support
o Error Codes (pending backend implementation)
o Support for binary data/bytea
REFERENTIAL INTEGRITY
* Add MATCH PARTIAL referential integrity
* -Check that primary key exists at foreign key definition time
* INSERT & UPDATE/DELETE in transaction of primary key fails with
deferredTriggerGetPreviousEvent or "change violation" [foreign]
* Change foreign key constraint for array -> element to mean element
* Add pg_depend table for dependency recording; use sysrelid, oid,
depend_sysrelid, depend_oid, name
* Auto-destroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL; perhaps a separate
SERIAL type
* Prevent column dropping if column is used by foreign key
* Propagate column or table renaming to foreign key constraints
* Automatically drop constraints/functions when object is dropped
* Make constraints clearer in dump file
* Make foreign keys easier to identify
TRANSACTIONS
* Allow autocommit so always in a transaction block
* Overhaul bufmgr/lockmgr/transaction manager
* Allow nested transactions / savepoints [transactions]
EXOTIC FEATURES
* Add sql3 recursive unions
* Add the concept of dataspaces/tablespaces [tablespaces]
* Allow queries across multiple databases
* Add pre-parsing phase that converts non-ANSI features to supported features
* Allow plug-in modules to emulate features from other databases
* SQL*Net listener that makes PostgreSQL appear as an Oracle database
* Increase identifier length (NAMEDATALEN) if small performance hit
* -Populate backend status area and write program to dump status data (Jan)
* Change representation of whole-tuple parameters to functions
* Delay fsync() when other backends are about to commit too [fsync]
* Determine optimal fdatasync/fsync, O_SYNC/O_DSYNC options
o Allow multiple blocks to be written to WAL with one write()
* Cache most recent query plan(s) (Karel) [prepare]
* Shared catalog cache, reduce lseek()'s by caching table size in shared area
* Add free-behind capability for large sequential scans
VACUUM
* Improve speed with indexes (perhaps recreate index instead) [vacuum]
* Reduce lock time by moving tuples with read lock, then write
lock and truncate table [vacuum]
* -Make ANALYZE a separate command (Tom)
* -Allow ANALYZE to ESTIMATE based on certain random precentage of rows (Tom)
* Do async I/O to do better read-ahead of data
* Get faster regex() code from Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.utoronto.ca>
* Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
* Improve dynamic memory allocation by introducing tuple-context memory
* -Allow GUC configuration of maximum number of open files (Tom)
* -Improve statistics storage in pg_class [performance] (Tom)
* Create a transaction processor to aid in persistent connections and
connection pooling
* Make blind writes go through the file descriptor cache
* -Read pg_hba.conf only on postmaster startup or SIGHUP (Bruce)
* Make secondary WAL page write()'s write only modified data
* Do listen() in postmaster and accept() in pre-forked backend
* Have pre-forked backend pre-connect to last requested database or pass
file descriptor to backend pre-forked for matching database
* Add use of 'const' for variables in source tree
* -Convert remaining fprintf(stderr,...)/perror() to elog() (Peter E)
* Fix problems with libpq non-blocking/async code [async]
* Fix username/password length limits in all areas, e.g. pg_passwd
* -Remove compile-time upper limit on number of backends (MAXBACKENDS) (Tom)
* Make sure all block numbers are unsigned to increase maximum table size
* Merge LockMethodCtl and LockMethodTable into one shared structure (Bruce)
* HOLDER/HOLDERTAB rename to PROCLOCK/PROCLOCKTAG (Bruce)
* Add version file format stamp to heap and other table types
* -Make elog(LOG) in WAL its own output type, distinct from DEBUG (Peter E)
* Move some things from /contrib into main tree, like fuzzystrmatch
* Move platform-specific ps status display info from ps_status.c to ports
* Allow ps status display to work on Solaris/SVr4-based systems
* -Add mention of VACUUM, log rotation to Administrator's Guide (Tom, Bruce)
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Developers who have claimed items are:
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* Billy is Billy G. Allie <Bill.Allie@mug.org>
* Bruce is Bruce Momjian<pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
* D'Arcy is D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
* Edmund is Edmund Mergl <E.Mergl@bawue.de>
* Hiroshi is Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>
* Karel is Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
* Jan is Jan Wieck <wieck@sapserv.debis.de>
* Marc is Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
* Mark is Mark Hollomon <mhh@mindspring.com>
* Michael is Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
* Oleg is Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
* Peter M is Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
* Peter E is Peter Eisentraut<peter_e@gmx.net>
* Philip is Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
* Ross is Ross J. Reedstrom <reedstrm@wallace.ece.rice.edu>
* Ryan is Ryan Bradetich <rbrad@hpb50023.boi.hp.com>
* Stephan is Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
* Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
* Thomas is Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
* Tom is Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>