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Update FAQ and TODO for 7.4.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
Last updated: Wed Oct 29 15:19:43 EST 2003
Last updated: Mon Nov 10 17:47:25 EST 2003
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
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http://www.PostgreSQL.org
There is also an IRC channel on EFNet and OpenProjects, channel
#PostgreSQL. I use the Unix command irc -c '#PostgreSQL' "$USER"
irc.phoenix.net.
There is also an IRC channel on EFNet and Freenode, channel
#PostgreSQL. You can use the Unix command irc -c '#PostgreSQL' "$USER"
irc.phoenix.net. or irc -c '#PostgreSQL' "$USER" irc.freenode.net.
A list of commercial support companies is available at
http://techdocs.postgresql.org/companies.php.
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Web page comparing PostgreSQL to MySQL at
http://openacs.org/philosophy/why-not-mysql.html Also, MySQL is
is a company that distributes its products via open source, not
an open source development community ilke PostgreSQL.
an open source development community like PostgreSQL.
Reliability
We realize that a DBMS must be reliable, or it is worthless. We
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TODO list for PostgreSQL
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Last updated: Sun Oct 26 00:43:53 EDT 2003
Last updated: Tue Nov 11 23:10:40 EST 2003
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
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(Christopher)
* Add optional textual message to NOTIFY
* Allow more ISOLATION LEVELS to be accepted, but issue a warning for them
* Allow CREATE TABLE foo (f1 INT CHECK (f1 > 0) CHECK (f1 < 10)) to work
by searching for non-conflicting constraint names, and prefix with table name
* Use more reliable method for CREATE DATABASE to get a consistent copy of db
* Have psql \dn show only visible schemas using current_schemas()
* Have psql '\i ~/<tab><tab>' actually load files it displays from home dir
* Ignore temporary tables from other session when processing inheritance
* ALTER
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Cache
=====
* Shared catalog cache, reduce lseek()'s by caching table size in shared area
* Add free-behind capability for large sequential scans (Bruce)
* Add free-behind capability for large sequential scans (fadvise)
* Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching
* Make blind writes go through the file descriptor cache
* Cache last known per-tuple offsets to speed long tuple access
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* Acquire lock on a relation before building a relcache entry for it
* Research interaction of setitimer() and sleep() used by statement_timeout
* Add checks for fclose() failure
* Change CVS $Id: TODO,v 1.1161 2003/10/26 04:43:55 momjian Exp $ to $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/TODO,v 1.1161 2003/10/26 04:43:55 momjian Exp $
* Change CVS $Id: TODO,v 1.1161.2.1 2003/11/14 17:54:15 momjian Exp $ to $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/TODO,v 1.1161.2.1 2003/11/14 17:54:15 momjian Exp $
* Exit postmaster if postgresql.conf can not be opened
* Rename /scripts directory because they are all C programs now
* Allow the regression tests to start postmaster with -i so the tests
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alink="#0000ff">
<H1>Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL</H1>
<P>Last updated: Wed Oct 29 15:19:43 EST 2003</P>
<P>Last updated: Mon Nov 10 17:47:25 EST 2003</P>
<P>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<A href=
"mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</A>)<BR>
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<A href="http://www.PostgreSQL.org">http://www.PostgreSQL.org</A>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>There is also an IRC channel on EFNet and OpenProjects,
channel <I>#PostgreSQL</I>. I use the Unix command <CODE>irc -c
'#PostgreSQL' "$USER" irc.phoenix.net.</CODE></P>
<P>There is also an IRC channel on EFNet and Freenode,
channel <I>#PostgreSQL</I>. You can use the Unix command <CODE>irc -c
'#PostgreSQL' "$USER" irc.phoenix.net.</CODE> or <CODE>irc -c
'#PostgreSQL' "$USER" irc.freenode.net.</CODE></P>
<P>A list of commercial support companies is available at <A href=
"http://techdocs.postgresql.org/companies.php">http://techdocs.postgresql.org/companies.php</A>.</P>
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MySQL at <A href="http://openacs.org/philosophy/why-not-mysql.html">
http://openacs.org/philosophy/why-not-mysql.html</A> Also, MySQL is
is a company that distributes its products via open source, not an
open source development community ilke PostgreSQL.<BR>
open source development community like PostgreSQL.<BR>
<BR>
</DD>
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