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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2000-04-28 19:15:49 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2000-04-28 19:15:49 +0000
commit7bd35f0f777a748dfc3d87b4b4c3144098b2671a (patch)
tree50b8c44ff2eff82056d13572a4f33b419c7e1f85
parent0e69b81d25b15e76cc3c8812345c63c802a17dc5 (diff)
Update TODO list.
-rw-r--r--doc/TODO30
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index f58b6f902e7..99c203785bf 100644
--- a/doc/TODO
+++ b/doc/TODO
@@ -58,9 +58,6 @@ ENHANCEMENTS
URGENT
-* Add MATCH PARTIAL referential integrity
-* Foreign key does not check that columns referenced form a primary key
- or constrained by UNIQUE
* Add OUTER joins, left and right[outer](Thomas, Bruce)
* Allow long tuples by chaining or auto-storing outside db (TOAST)(Jan)
* Fix memory leak for expressions[memory](Tom?)
@@ -72,7 +69,7 @@ ADMIN
* Allow elog() to return error codes, not just messages
* Allow international error message support and add error codes
* Add ability to specifiy location of lock/socket files [flock]
-* Unify configuration into one configuration file
+* Unify configuration into one configuration file (Peter E)
TYPES
@@ -139,13 +136,24 @@ CLIENTS
* allow psql \d to show primary and foreign keys
* allow psql \d to show temporary table schema
+REFERENTIAL INTEGRITY
+
+* Add MATCH PARTIAL referential integrity
+* Foreign key does not check that columns referenced form a primary key
+ or constrained by UNIQUE
+* Check that primary key exists at foreign key definition time
+* Prevent column dropping if column is used by foreign key
+* Propagate column or table renaming to foreign key constraints
+* Emit a warning at foreign key creation time if no UNIQUE index
+ exists on referenced primary key attributes
+
EXOTIC FEATURES
* Add sql3 recursive unions
* Add the concept of dataspaces
* Add replication of distributed databases
* Allow queries across multiple databases
-* Allow nested transactions
+* Allow nested transactions (Vadim)
MISC
@@ -169,15 +177,9 @@ MISC
* Redesign the function call interface to handle NULLs better[function](Tom)
* Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc. [optimizer]
* Overhaul bufmgr/lockmgr/transaction manager
-* Add configure test to check for C++ need for *.h and namespaces
* Allow BLCKSZ <= 64k, not <= 32k
* redesign UNION structures to have separarate target lists
* Allow multi-level query trees for INSERT INTO ... SELECT
-* Check that primary key exists at foreign key definition time
-* Prevent column dropping if column is used by foreign key
-* Propagate column or table renaming to foreign key constraints
-* Emit a warning at foreign key creation time if no UNIQUE index
- exists on referenced primary key attributes
PERFORMANCE
@@ -192,8 +194,6 @@ INDEXES
* Use indexes in ORDER BY for min(), max()
* Use index to restrict rows returned by multi-key index when used with
non-consecutive keys or OR clauses, so fewer heap accesses
-* Improve LIMIT processing by using index to limit rows processed [limit]
-* Have optimizer take LIMIT into account when considering index scans [limit]
* Allow SELECT * FROM tab WHERE int2col = 4 use int2col index, int8,
float4, numeric/decimal too [optimizer]
* Include heap CTID in btree index keys, remove equal-key cruft from btree
@@ -207,7 +207,6 @@ MISC
* Allow compression of log and meta data
* Allow char() not to use variable-sized header to reduce disk size
-* Allow char1 data type that takes one byte of storage
* Do async I/O to do better read-ahead of data
* Get faster regex() code from Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.utoronto.ca>
when it is available
@@ -222,7 +221,6 @@ MISC
allocation [memory]
* In WHERE tab1.x=3 AND tab1.x=tab2.y, add tab2.y=3
* Allow persistent backends [persistent]
-* others [performance]
* prevent labels from being output for stored rules (Tom)
* allow configuration of maximum number of open files
@@ -232,7 +230,7 @@ SOURCE CODE
* Add use of 'const' for variables in source tree
* Fix C optimizer problem where fmgr_ptr calls return different types [alpha]
* Does Mariposa source contain any other bug fixes?
-* Remove SET KSQO option if OR processing is improved(Tom)
+* Remove SET KSQO option now that OR processing is improved(Tom)
* Use macros to define NT open() file parameters, remove NT-specific defines
* Change CURRENT to OLD internally for rules