Update TODO list.

doc/TODO

 TODO list for PostgreSQL
 ========================
-Last updated:		Sun Sep 26 20:37:50 EDT 1999
+Last updated:		Sun Sep 26 23:23:58 EDT 1999
 
 Current maintainer:	Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us)
 
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ the PostgreSQL web site, http://www.PostgreSQL.org.
 
 A dash(-) marks changes that will appear in the next release.
 
+Names in brackets "[]" indicate more detailed information is available in
+the directory pgsql/doc/TODO.detail/ under that name.
+
 
 RELIABILITY
 -----------
@@ -27,8 +30,7 @@ PARSER
 * Alter TABLE ADD COLUMN does not honor DEFAULT, add CONSTRAINT
 * Do not allow bpchar column creation without length
 * Select a[1] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[1]
-* -Array index references without table name cause problems
-	(see TODO.detail/array)
+* -Array index references without table name cause problems [array]
 * Update table SET table.value = 3 fails
 * Creating index of TIMESTAMP & RELTIME fails, or rename to DATETIME(Thomas)
 * SELECT foo UNION SELECT foo is incorrectly simplified to SELECT foo
@@ -37,21 +39,19 @@ PARSER
 * UNION with LIMIT fails
 * Unique index on base column not honored on inserts from inherited table
   INSERT INTO inherit_table (unique_index_col) VALUES (dup) should fail
-  (see TODO.detail/inherit)
+  [inherit] 
 * CREATE TABLE x AS SELECT 1 UNION SELECT 2 fails
 * CREATE TABLE test(col char(2) DEFAULT user) fails in length restriction
-* mismatched types in CREATE TABLE ... DEFAULT causes problems
-	(see TODO.detail/default)
+* mismatched types in CREATE TABLE ... DEFAULT causes problems [default]
 * SELECT ... UNION ... ORDER BY fails when sort expr not in result list
 * Be smarter about promoting types when UNION merges different data types
 * SELECT ... UNION ... GROUP BY fails if column types disagree
 * redesign INSERT ... SELECT to have two levels of target list
 * -select * from pg_class where oid in (0,-1)
 * have INTERSECT/EXCEPT prevent duplicates unless ALL is specified
-* prevent primary key of nine columns(see TODO.detail/primary)
+* prevent primary key of nine columns [primary]
 * SELECT COUNT('asdf') FROM pg_class WHERE oid=12 crashes
-* SELECT DISTINCT ON col1 col1 col2 FROM tab1 is broken
-	(see TODO.detail/distinct)
+* SELECT DISTINCT ON col1 col1 col2 FROM tab1 is broken [distinct]
 
 VIEWS
 
@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ ENHANCEMENTS
 
 URGENT
 
-* Add referential integrity(Jan?)(see TODO.detail/primary)
-* Add OUTER joins, left and right(see TODO.detail/outer)(Thomas, Bruce)
+* Add referential integrity(Jan?)[primary]
+* Add OUTER joins, left and right[outer](Thomas, Bruce)
 * Allow long tuples by chaining or auto-storing outside db (chaining,large objs)
 * Eliminate limits on query length
-* Fix memory leak for expressions?(see TODO.detail/memory)(Tom?) 
+* Fix memory leak for expressions?[memory](Tom?) 
 * -Fix memory leak for aggregates?
 
 ADMIN
@@ -84,9 +84,8 @@ ADMIN
 * Add syslog functionality
 * Allow elog() to return error codes, not just messages
 * Allow international error message support and add error codes
-* Generate postmaster pid file and remove flock/fcntl lock code
-	(see TODO.detail/flock)
-* Add ability to specifiy location of lock/socket files (see TODO.detail/flock)
+* Generate postmaster pid file and remove flock/fcntl lock code [flock]
+* Add ability to specifiy location of lock/socket files [flock]
 
 TYPES
 
@@ -115,7 +114,7 @@ TYPES
 * Add non-large-object binary field
 * Add index on NUMERIC/DECIMAL type
 * Make Absolutetime/Relativetime int4 because time_t can be int8 on some ports
-* Functions returning sets don't really work right(see TODO.detail/function)
+* Functions returning sets don't really work right[function]
 
 VIEWS
 
@@ -136,19 +135,18 @@ INDEXES
 
 COMMANDS
 
-* ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN to inherited table put column in wrong place
-	(see TODO.detail/inherit)
+* ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN to inherited table put column in wrong place [inherit]
 * Add ALTER TABLE DROP/ALTER COLUMN feature
 * Allow CLUSTER on all tables at once, and improve CLUSTER, loses NOT
-	NULL specification on table(see TODO.detail/cluster)
+	NULL specification on table [cluster]
 * Generate error on CREATE OPERATOR of ~~, ~ and and ~*
 * Add SIMILAR TO to allow character classes, 'pg_[a-c]%'
 * Auto-destroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL(Ryan)
 * Allow LOCK TABLE tab1, tab2, tab3 so all tables locked in unison
 * Allow INSERT/UPDATE of system-generated oid value for a row
-* Allow ESCAPE '\' at the end of LIKE for ANSI compliance(see TODO.detail/like)
+* Allow ESCAPE '\' at the end of LIKE for ANSI compliance [like]
 * Rewrite the LIKE handling by rewriting the user string with the 
-  supplied ESCAPE(see TODO.detail/like)
+  supplied ESCAPE [like]
 * Move LIKE index optimization handling to the optimizer
 * Allow RULE recompilation
 * Support UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT in sub-selects
@@ -161,7 +159,7 @@ CLIENTS
 * Update reltuples from COPY command
 * Allow psql \copy to allow delimiters
 * Add a function to return the last inserted oid, for use in psql scripts
-* Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from ""(see TODO.detail/null)
+* Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from "" [null]
 * PQrequestCancel() be able to terminate backend waiting for lock
 
 EXOTIC FEATURES
@@ -185,19 +183,16 @@ MISC
 * Allow cursors to be DECLAREd/OPENed/CLOSEed outside transactions
 * Allow PQrequestCancel() to terminate when in waiting-for-lock state
 * -Transaction log, so re-do log can be on a separate disk by
-  with after-row images(Vadim) (see TODO.detail/logging)
+  with after-row images(Vadim) [logging]
 * Populate backend status area and write program to dump status data
 * Make oid use unsigned int more reliably, pg_atoi()
 * Allow subqueries in target list
 * Put sort files, large objects in their own directory
 * Do autocommit so always in a transaction block(?)
-* Show location of syntax error in query (see TODO.detail/yacc)
-* Redesign the function call interface to handle NULLs better
-	(see TODO.detail/function)
-* Document/trigger/rule so changes to pg_shadow recreate pg_pwd
-	(see TODO.detail/pg_shadow)
-* Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc.
-	(see TODO.detail/optimizer)
+* Show location of syntax error in query [yacc]
+* Redesign the function call interface to handle NULLs better [function]
+* Document/trigger/rule so changes to pg_shadow recreate pg_pwd [pg_shadow]
+* Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc. [optimizer]
 * Overhaul mdmgr/smgr to fix double unlinking and double opens, cleanup
 * Overhaul bufmgr/lockmgr/transaction manager
 * Add PL/Perl(Mark Hollomon)
@@ -212,8 +207,7 @@ PERFORMANCE
 
 FSYNC
 
-* -Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance
-	(see TODO.detail/fsync)
+* -Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance [fsync]
 * -Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries
 
 INDEXES
@@ -224,23 +218,21 @@ INDEXES
   non-consecutive keys or OR clauses, so fewer heap accesses
 * Convert function(constant) into a constant for index use
 * Allow LIMIT ability on single-table queries that have no ORDER BY to use
-  a matching index(see TODO.detail/limit)
-* Improve LIMIT processing by using index to limit rows processed
-	(see TODO.detail/limit) 
-* Have optimizer take LIMIT into account when considering index scans
-	(see TODO.detail/limit)
+  a matching index [limit]
+* Improve LIMIT processing by using index to limit rows processed [limit]
+* Have optimizer take LIMIT into account when considering index scans [limit]
 * Make index creation use psort code, because it is now faster(Vadim)
 * Allow creation of sort temp tables > 1 Gig
 * Create more system table indexes for faster cache lookups
 * fix indexscan() so it does leak memory by not requiring caller to free
 * Improve _bt_binsrch() to handle equal keys better, remove _bt_firsteq()(Tom)
-* Allow SELECT * FROM tab WHERE int2col = 4 use int2col index
-	(see TODO.detail/optimizer)
+* Allow SELECT * FROM tab WHERE int2col = 4 use int2col index, int8 too
+	[optimizer]
 * Allow optimizer to prefer plans that match ORDER BY
 
 CACHE
 
-* Cache most recent query plan(s)(see TODO.detail/prepare)
+* Cache most recent query plan(s) [prepare]
 * Shared catalog cache, reduce lseek()'s by caching table size in shared area
 * elog() flushes cache, try invalidating just entries from current xact,
   perhaps using invalidation cache
@@ -252,7 +244,7 @@ MISC
 * Update pg_statistic table to remove operator column
 * Allow char() not to use variable-sized header to reduce disk size
 * Do async I/O to do better read-ahead of data
-* -Fix memory exhaustion when using many OR's(see TODO.detail/cnfify)
+* -Fix memory exhaustion when using many OR's [cnfify]
 * Get faster regex() code from Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.utoronto.ca>
   when it is available
 * Use mmap() rather than SYSV shared memory(?)
@@ -263,20 +255,19 @@ MISC
 * use fmgr_info()/fmgr_faddr() instead of fmgr() calls in high-traffic
   places, like GROUP BY, UNIQUE, index processing, etc.
 * improve dynamic memory allocation by introducing tuple-context memory
-  allocation(see TODO.detail/memory)
+  allocation [memory]
 * fix memory leak in cache code when non-existant table is referenced
 * In WHERE tab1.x=3 AND tab1.x=tab2.y, add tab2.y=3
-* pass atttypmod through parser in more cases(see TODO.detail/atttypmod)
+* pass atttypmod through parser in more cases [atttypmod]
 * remove duplicate type in/out functions for disk and net
 * change VACUUM ANALYZE to use btree comparison functions, not <,=,> calls
-* Allow persistent backends(see TODO.detail/persistent)
-* Misc(see TODO.detail/performance)
+* Allow persistent backends [persistent]
+* Misc [performance]
 
 SOURCE CODE
 -----------
 * Add use of 'const' for varibles in source tree
-* Fix C optimizer problem where fmgr_ptr calls return different types
-	(see TODO.detail/alpha)
+* Fix C optimizer problem where fmgr_ptr calls return different types [alpha]
 * -Add needed includes and removed unneeded include files(Bruce)
 * Make configure --enable-debug add -g on compile line
 * Does Mariposa source contain any other bug fixes?