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2008-08-21Mention that pg_dump does not dump ALTER DATABASE ... SET commands;Bruce Momjian
backpatch to 8.3.X. Also fix markup that had just one bullet.
2008-08-20Remove tools and documention for generating TODO.html.Bruce Momjian
2008-08-20TODO now in wiki, html version removed.Bruce Momjian
2008-08-20New TODO list URL wiki location listed; contents truncated.Bruce Momjian
2008-08-19Not done:Bruce Momjian
< o -Allow an existing index to be marked as a table's primary key > o Allow an existing index to be marked as a table's primary key
2008-08-19Cause the output from debug_print_parse, debug_print_rewritten, andTom Lane
debug_print_plan to appear at LOG message level, not DEBUG1 as historically. Make debug_pretty_print default to on. Also, cause plans generated via EXPLAIN to be subject to debug_print_plan. This is all to make debug_print_plan a reasonably comfortable substitute for the former behavior of EXPLAIN VERBOSE.
2008-08-19TODO done:Bruce Momjian
! o Allow an existing index to be marked as a table's primary key
2008-08-19Fix some issues that prevent this file to be processed by scripts.Alvaro Herrera
While at it, mark a couple of items completed in 8.4: ! o -Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-xid advancement starvation ! * -Improve performance of shared invalidation queue for multiple CPUs Also remove a couple of obsolete assignments.
2008-08-18Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Fix all set-returning system functions so they support a wildcard > target list > > SELECT * FROM pg_get_keywords() works but SELECT * FROM > pg_show_all_settings() does not.
2008-08-16Update instructions on generating TODO.html.Bruce Momjian
2008-08-16Add URL for:Bruce Momjian
* Improve ability to modify views via ALTER TABLE < > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-08/msg00300.php
2008-08-16Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Prevent query cancel packets from being replayed by an attacker, > especially when using SSL > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-08/msg00345.php >
2008-08-16Update Russian FAQ.Bruce Momjian
corochoone@gmail.com
2008-08-16Add new SQL training web site to FAQ:Bruce Momjian
<LI><A href= "http://sqlzoo.net">http://sqlzoo.net</A> </LI>
2008-08-15Make the temporary directory for pgstat files configurable by the GUCMagnus Hagander
variable stats_temp_directory, instead of requiring the admin to mount/symlink the pg_stat_tmp directory manually. For now the config variable is PGC_POSTMASTER. Room for further improvment that would allow it to be changed on-the-fly.
2008-08-14Implement SEMI and ANTI joins in the planner and executor. (Semijoins replaceTom Lane
the old JOIN_IN code, but antijoins are new functionality.) Teach the planner to convert appropriate EXISTS and NOT EXISTS subqueries into semi and anti joins respectively. Also, LEFT JOINs with suitable upper-level IS NULL filters are recognized as being anti joins. Unify the InClauseInfo and OuterJoinInfo infrastructure into "SpecialJoinInfo". With that change, it becomes possible to associate a SpecialJoinInfo with every join attempt, which permits some cleanup of join selectivity estimation. That needs to be taken much further than this patch does, but the next step is to change the API for oprjoin selectivity functions, which seems like material for a separate patch. So for the moment the output size estimates for semi and especially anti joins are quite bogus.
2008-08-14pg_buffercache needs to be taught about relation forks, as Greg StarkHeikki Linnakangas
pointed out.
2008-08-14Add URL for:Bruce Momjian
* Improve ability to modify views via ALTER TABLE > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg01410.php
2008-08-12Remove TODO itemPeter Eisentraut
Allow XML to accept more liberal DOCTYPE specifications Everything works correctly, per today's email to -general.
2008-08-12Add:Bruce Momjian
> * Add 'hostgss' pg_hba.conf option to allow GSS link-level encryption > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg01454.php
2008-08-05Move pgstat.tmp into a temporary directory under $PGDATA named pg_stat_tmp.Magnus Hagander
This allows the use of a ramdrive (either through mount or symlink) for the temporary file that's written every half second, which should reduce I/O. On server shutdown/startup, the file is written to the old location in the global directory, to preserve data across restarts. Bump catversion since the $PGDATA directory layout changed.
2008-07-31Add URL to:Bruce Momjian
* Consider decreasing the I/O caused by updating tuple hint bits > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-07/msg00199.php
2008-07-31Require superuser privilege to create base types (but not composites, enums,Tom Lane
or domains). This was already effectively required because you had to own the I/O functions, and the I/O functions pretty much have to be written in C since we don't let PL functions take or return cstring. But given the possible security consequences of a malicious type definition, it seems prudent to enforce superuser requirement directly. Per recent discussion.
2008-07-30Allow I/O conversion casts to be applied to or from any type that is a memberTom Lane
of the STRING type category, thereby opening up the mechanism for user-defined types. This is mainly for the benefit of citext, though; there aren't likely to be a lot of types that are all general-purpose character strings. Per discussion with David Wheeler.
2008-07-30Flip the default typispreferred setting from true to false. This affectsTom Lane
only type categories in which the previous coding made *every* type preferred; so there is no change in effective behavior, because the function resolution rules only do something different when faced with a choice between preferred and non-preferred types in the same category. It just seems safer and less surprising to have CREATE TYPE default to non-preferred status ...
2008-07-30Replace the hard-wired type knowledge in TypeCategory() and IsPreferredType()Tom Lane
with system catalog lookups, as was foreseen to be necessary almost since their creation. Instead put the information into two new pg_type columns, typcategory and typispreferred. Add support for setting these when creating a user-defined base type. The category column is just a "char" (i.e. a poor man's enum), allowing a crude form of user extensibility of the category list: just use an otherwise-unused character. This seems sufficient for foreseen uses, but we could upgrade to having an actual category catalog someday, if there proves to be a huge demand for custom type categories. In this patch I have attempted to hew exactly to the behavior of the previous hardwired logic, except for introducing new type categories for arrays, composites, and enums. In particular the default preferred state for user-defined types remains TRUE. That seems worth revisiting, but it should be done as a separate patch from introducing the infrastructure. Likewise, any adjustment of the standard set of categories should be done separately.
2008-07-29Add a new, improved version of citext as a contrib module.Tom Lane
David E. Wheeler
2008-07-29Cleanup reference to config.pl so it makes sense not only inMagnus Hagander
SGML source but in the actual web/pdf viewer...
2008-07-29Document which versions of ActivePerl and ActiveTcl are requiredMagnus Hagander
for building on MSVC, and that the free distribution is enough (no need for the enterprise version). Per gripe from Martin Zaun.
2008-07-23Abort if Tcl support was configured and no tcl shell was found.Peter Eisentraut
This is required because the value is substituted into the pltcl_*mod scripts.
2008-07-22Update link to Oleg and Teodor's GIN page.Tom Lane
(Extracted from fast-insert patch, since it ought to be back-patched)
2008-07-21Code review for array_fill patch: fix inadequate check for array size overflowTom Lane
and bogus documentation (dimension arrays are int[] not anyarray). Also the errhint() messages seem to be really errdetail(), since there is nothing heuristic about them. Some other trivial cosmetic improvements.
2008-07-20Add a pg_dump option --lock-wait-timeout to allow failing the dump if unableTom Lane
to acquire shared table locks within a specified amount of time. David Gould
2008-07-18Properly document archive/restore command examples on Windows.Bruce Momjian
ITAGAKI Takahiro
2008-07-18Implement SQL-spec RETURNS TABLE syntax for functions.Tom Lane
(Unlike the original submission, this patch treats TABLE output parameters as being entirely equivalent to OUT parameters -- tgl) Pavel Stehule
2008-07-18Add URL for:Bruce Momjian
* Implement SQL:2003 window functions > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg00232.php
2008-07-17Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Reduce locking requirements for creating a trigger > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00635.php >
2008-07-16Add URL for:Bruce Momjian
* Implement SQL:2003 window functions > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00380.php >
2008-07-16Add a "provariadic" column to pg_proc to eliminate the remarkably expensiveTom Lane
need to deconstruct proargmodes for each pg_proc entry inspected by FuncnameGetCandidates(). Fixes function lookup performance regression caused by yesterday's variadic-functions patch. In passing, make pg_proc.probin be NULL, rather than a dummy value '-', in cases where it is not actually used for the particular type of function. This should buy back some of the space cost of the extra column.
2008-07-16Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > o Add external tool to auto-tune some postgresql.conf parameters > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00000.php >
2008-07-16Support "variadic" functions, which can accept a variable number of argumentsTom Lane
so long as all the trailing arguments are of the same (non-array) type. The function receives them as a single array argument (which is why they have to all be the same type). It might be useful to extend this facility to aggregates, but this patch doesn't do that. This patch imposes a noticeable slowdown on function lookup --- a follow-on patch will fix that by adding a redundant column to pg_proc. Pavel Stehule
2008-07-16Add array_fill() to create arrays initialized with a value.Bruce Momjian
Pavel Stehule
2008-07-15Fix alignment of SGML array docs.Bruce Momjian
2008-07-15Add Swedish_Sweden.1252 Windows locale example to docs.Bruce Momjian
2008-07-15Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > o Reduce PITR WAL file size by removing full page writes and > by removing trailing bytes to improve compression
2008-07-15Add TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Consider decreasing the I/O caused by updating tuple hint bits > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00847.php >
2008-07-15Done:Bruce Momjian
> o -Have psql show current values for a sequence
2008-07-15Clarify that locale names on Windows are more verbose.Bruce Momjian
Report from Martin Saschek
2008-07-14Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> * Improve ability to modify views via ALTER TABLE > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00691.php
2008-07-14Done:Bruce Momjian
< * Add temporal versions of generate_series() > * -Add temporal versions of generate_series()