diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO index 0de1ce3a40830f1c3455b7ee19d92abee82955fb..162eb3c0ba71fdadebcc770e04af68956056a70c 100644 --- a/doc/TODO +++ b/doc/TODO @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ -z PostgreSQL TODO List ==================== Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) -Last updated: Mon May 28 19:56:23 EDT 2007 +Last updated: Wed May 30 15:07:10 EDT 2007 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html. @@ -1169,8 +1168,8 @@ Vacuum For large table adjustments during VACUUM FULL, it is faster to cluster or reindex rather than update the index. Also, index updates can bloat the index. - http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00024.php + http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2007-05/msg00296.php * Reduce lock time during VACUUM FULL by moving tuples with read lock, then write lock and truncate table diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html index 2cf33ace80a043159dff2267ec63cfedbacdffbf..244ebbaf86eb77c5f32611de868789a117eb84a1 100644 --- a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html +++ b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html @@ -2,16 +2,14 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> -<title>z</title> +<title>PostgreSQL TODO List</title> <meta name="generator" content="HTML::TextToHTML v2.25"/> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#FF0000" vlink="#A00000" alink="#0000FF"> -<p>z<br/> -PostgreSQL TODO List -</p><hr/> -Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:bruce@momjian.us">bruce@momjian.us</a>)<br/> -Last updated: Mon May 28 19:56:23 EDT 2007 - +<h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1> +<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:bruce@momjian.us">bruce@momjian.us</a>)<br/> +Last updated: Wed May 30 15:07:10 EDT 2007 +</p> <p>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<br/> <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html</a>. </p> @@ -25,7 +23,7 @@ you would like to work on an item, please read the Developer's FAQ<br/> first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> <a href="http://developer.postgresql.org">http://developer.postgresql.org</a>. </p> -<h1><a name="section_1">Administration</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_2">Administration</a></h1> <ul> <li>Allow major upgrades without dump/reload, perhaps using pg_upgrade @@ -158,7 +156,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> </p> </li></ul> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_2">Monitoring</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_3">Monitoring</a></h1> <ul> <li>Allow server log information to be output as INSERT statements @@ -167,7 +165,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> </p> </li><li>-<em>Add ability to monitor the use of temporary sort files</em> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_3">Data Types</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_4">Data Types</a></h1> <ul> <li>-<em>Make 64-bit version of the MONEY data type</em> @@ -309,7 +307,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> </li></ul> </li></ul> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_4">Functions</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_5">Functions</a></h1> <ul> <li>Allow INET subnet tests using non-constants to be indexed @@ -365,7 +363,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> e.g. box @> point </p> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_5">Multi-Language Support</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_6">Multi-Language Support</a></h1> <ul> <li>Add NCHAR (as distinguished from ordinary varchar), @@ -406,7 +404,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> <p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00767.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00767.php</a> </p> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_6">Views / Rules</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_7">Views / Rules</a></h1> <ul> <li>Automatically create rules on views so they are updateable, per SQL99 @@ -423,7 +421,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> are added after the view is created. </p> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_7">SQL Commands</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_8">SQL Commands</a></h1> <ul> <li>Add CORRESPONDING BY to UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT @@ -720,7 +718,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> </li></ul> </li></ul> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_8">Clients</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_9">Clients</a></h1> <ul> <li>Have pg_ctl look at PGHOST in case it is a socket directory? @@ -834,7 +832,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> </p> </li></ul> </p></ul> -<h1><a name="section_9">Triggers</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_10">Triggers</a></h1> <ul> <li>Add deferred trigger queue file @@ -869,7 +867,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> <p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-02/msg01466.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-02/msg01466.php</a> </p> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_10">Dependency Checking</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_11">Dependency Checking</a></h1> <ul> <li>-<em>Flush cached query plans when the dependent objects change or</em> @@ -878,7 +876,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> </li><li>-<em>Invalidate prepared queries, like INSERT, when the table definition</em> is altered </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_11">Indexes</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_12">Indexes</a></h1> <ul> <li>Add UNIQUE capability to non-btree indexes @@ -951,7 +949,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> </p> </li></ul> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_12">Fsync</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_13">Fsync</a></h1> <ul> <li>Improve commit_delay handling to reduce fsync() @@ -969,7 +967,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg00079.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg00079.php</a> </p> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_13">Cache Usage</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_14">Cache Usage</a></h1> <ul> <li>Allow free-behind capability for large sequential scans, perhaps using @@ -1034,15 +1032,15 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg00752.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg00752.php</a> </p> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_14">Vacuum</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_15">Vacuum</a></h1> <ul> <li>Improve speed with indexes <p> For large table adjustments during VACUUM FULL, it is faster to cluster or reindex rather than update the index. Also, index updates can bloat the index. -</p> -<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00024.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00024.php</a> + <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00024.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00024.php</a> + <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2007-05/msg00296.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2007-05/msg00296.php</a> </p> </li><li>Reduce lock time during VACUUM FULL by moving tuples with read lock, then write lock and truncate table @@ -1104,7 +1102,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> </p> </li></ul> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_15">Locking</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_16">Locking</a></h1> <ul> <li>Fix priority ordering of read and write light-weight locks (Neil) @@ -1124,7 +1122,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> </li><li>Add idle_in_transaction_timeout GUC so locks are not held for long periods of time </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_16">Startup Time Improvements</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_17">Startup Time Improvements</a></h1> <ul> <li>Experiment with multi-threaded backend for backend creation [<a href="http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgtodo?thread">thread</a>] @@ -1147,7 +1145,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> existing backends is one of the difficulties with a backend approach. </p> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_17">Write-Ahead Log</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_18">Write-Ahead Log</a></h1> <ul> <li>Eliminate need to write full pages to WAL before page modification [<a href="http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgtodo?wal">wal</a>] @@ -1213,7 +1211,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> of indexes on TOAST tables. </p> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_18">Optimizer / Executor</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_19">Optimizer / Executor</a></h1> <ul> <li>Improve selectivity functions for geometric operators @@ -1238,7 +1236,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> <p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg00096.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg00096.php</a> </p> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_19">Miscellaneous Performance</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_20">Miscellaneous Performance</a></h1> <ul> <li>Do async I/O for faster random read-ahead of data @@ -1283,7 +1281,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> <p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg00752.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg00752.php</a> </p> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_20">Source Code</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_21">Source Code</a></h1> <ul> <li>Add use of 'const' for variables in source tree @@ -1368,7 +1366,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> of result sets using new statement protocol </li></ul> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_21">Exotic Features</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_22">Exotic Features</a></h1> <ul> <li>Add pre-parsing phase that converts non-ISO syntax to supported @@ -1396,7 +1394,7 @@ first. There is also a developer's wiki at<br/> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg01527.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg01527.php</a> </p> </li></ul> -<h1><a name="section_22">Features We Do <u>Not</u> Want</a></h1> +<h1><a name="section_23">Features We Do <u>Not</u> Want</a></h1> <ul> <li>All backends running as threads in a single process (not wanted)