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 TODO list for PostgreSQL
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-Last updated:		Fri Jul  6 14:23:02 EDT 2001
+Last updated:		Sat Jul  7 00:23:07 EDT 2001
 
 Current maintainer:	Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
 
@@ -33,7 +33,10 @@ URGENT
 	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
-* Allow row re-use without vacuum (Vadim)
+* Allow row re-use without vacuum (Tom)
+* Create a background process for each database that runs while
+  database is idle, finding superceeded rows, gathering stats and
+  vacuuming (Tom)
 
 ADMIN
 
@@ -46,9 +49,10 @@ ADMIN
 * -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)
 * Add table name mapping for numeric file names
-* Overhaul pg_hba.conf host-based authentication
-* Encrpyt passwords in pg_shadow table using MD5 (Vince)
+* -Better document pg_hba.conf host-based authentication (Bruce)
+* Encrpyt passwords in pg_shadow table using MD5 (Bruce, Vince)
 * Incremental backups
 
 TYPES
@@ -59,14 +63,14 @@ TYPES
 * Store binary-compatible type information in the system
 * Support construction of array result values in expressions
 * Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type
+* SELECT cash_out(2) crashes because of opaque
 * Declare typein/out functions in pg_proc with a special "C string" data type
-* Add non-large-object binary field
-* Make binary/file in/out interface for TOAST columns
+* -Add non-large-object binary field (already exists -- bytea)
+* -Make binary/file in/out interface for TOAST columns (base64)
 * Functions returning sets do not totally work
 * SELECT col FROM tab WHERE numeric_col = 10.1 fails
 * Allow better handling of numeric constants, type conversion [typeconv]
 * Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc. [optimizer]
-* SELECT cash_out(2) crashes because of opaque
 * -Add SQL standard function bit_length() (Peter E)
 * -Make oid use unsigned int more reliably (Tom)
 * ARRAYS
@@ -126,7 +130,7 @@ SYSTEM TABLES
 * -Add unique indexes to pg_shadow.usename and pg_shadow.usesysid or
   switch to pg_shadow.oid as user id
 * -Add unique indexes on pg_database
-* Check all system tables and add unique indexes as needed
+* -Check all system tables and add unique indexes as needed (Tom)
 * -Remove pg_listener index
 * -Remove unused pg_variable, pg_inheritproc, pg_ipl tables (Bruce)
 * Add pg_depend table to track object dependencies
@@ -156,8 +160,7 @@ COMMANDS
 	* cluster all tables at once
 	* prevent lose of indexes, permissions, inheritance
 	* Automatically keep clustering on a table
-	* -Keep statistics about clustering
-	  [optimizer]
+	* -Keep statistics about clustering (Tom) [optimizer]
 * COPY
 	* Allow specification of column names
 	* Allow dump/load of CSV format
@@ -174,14 +177,14 @@ COMMANDS
 	* Allow INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING new.col or old.col (Philip)
 * SHOW/SET
 	* Add SHOW command to display locks
-	* Add SHOW command to show all settings
-	* Add a global RESET command for use with connection pooling
+	* -Add SHOW command to show all settings
+	* -Add a global RESET command for use with connection pooling
 	* Add SET or BEGIN timeout parameter to cancel query if waiting too long
 	* Add SET REAL_FORMAT and SET DOUBLE_PRECISION_FORMAT using printf args
 	* Remove SET KSQO option now that OR processing is improved (Tom)
 	* Add SET PERFORMANCE_TIPS option to suggest INDEX, VACUUM, VACUUM
 	  ANALYZE, and CLUSTER
-	* Add SHOW command to see locale
+	* -Add SHOW command to see locale
 
 CLIENTS
 
@@ -192,7 +195,6 @@ CLIENTS
 * allow psql \d to show foreign keys
 * allow psql \d to show temporary table structure
 * add XML interface capability
-* Remove <=6.3 version compatibility in ODBC?
 * Fix libpq to properly handle socket failures under native MS Win32 [libpq]
 * JDBC
 	* Comprehensive test suite. This may be available already.
@@ -222,12 +224,10 @@ REFERENTIAL INTEGRITY
 
 TRANSACTIONS
 
-* Implement UNDO using transaction log, overwriting storage manager? 
-  [vacuum] (Vadim)
 * Allow autocommit so always in a transaction block
 * Overhaul bufmgr/lockmgr/transaction manager
 * Allow nested transactions (Vadim)
-* Handle transaction rollover [transactions]
+* Handle transaction rollover (Tom) [transactions]
 
 EXOTIC FEATURES
 
@@ -238,17 +238,14 @@ EXOTIC FEATURES
 * Add pre-parsing phase that converts non-ANSI features to supported features
 * SQL*Net listener that makes PostgreSQL appear as an Oracle database
   to clients
+* Allow Java server-side programming [java]
 
 MISCELLANEOUS
 
 * Increase identifier length(NAMEDATALEN) if small performance hit
-* Create a background process for each database that runs while
-  database is idle, finding superceeded rows, gathering stats and
-  vacuuming (Tom)
-* Populate backend status area and write program to dump status data (Jan)
+* -Populate backend status area and write program to dump status data (Jan)
 * -Put sort files in their own directory (Bruce)
 * Show location of syntax error in query [yacc]
-* Allow Java server-side programming [java]
 * Add sed-like regular expression search/replace capability
 * Change representation of whole-tuple parameters to functions
 
@@ -286,9 +283,9 @@ MISCELLANEOUS
 * Use mmap() rather than SYSV shared memory(?) [mmap]
 * Improve Subplan list handling
 * Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
-* improve dynamic memory allocation by introducing tuple-context memory
+* Improve dynamic memory allocation by introducing tuple-context memory
   allocation (Tom)
-* allow configuration of maximum number of open files
+* Allow GUC configuration of maximum number of open files
 * -Improve statistics storage in pg_class [performance] (Tom)
 * Add connection pooling [pool]
 * Allow persistent backends [persistent]
@@ -304,7 +301,7 @@ SOURCE CODE
 * Does Mariposa source contain any other bug fixes?
 * Convert remaining fprintf(stderr,...)/perror() to elog()
 * Fix problems with libpq non-blocking/async code [async]
-* Merge global and template BKI files (Peter E)
+* -Merge global and template BKI files (Tom)
 * 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