TODO list for PostgreSQL

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Last updated:Tue Feb19 22:50:15 EST 2002

Last updated:Thu Feb21 00:10:15 EST 2002

Current maintainer:Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)

* Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line

number, not just messages (Peter E)

* Add error codes (Peter E)

* Change DEBUG startup tag to NOTICE; change NOTICE to output to client

only if client exists (Bruce)

* Change DEBUG startup tag to NOTICE (Bruce)

* Show location of syntax error in query [yacc]

* Make single-user local access permissions the default by limiting

permissions on the socket file (Peter E)

* Use thread-safe crypt() in libpq, if available

ADMIN

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partial page writes

* Turn off after-change writes if fsync is disabled (?)

* Add WAL index reliability improvement to non-btree indexes

* Reorder postgresql.conf WAL items in order of importance

*-Reorder postgresql.conf WAL items in order of importance (Bruce)

* Remove wal_files postgresql.conf option because WAL files are now recycled

* Find proper defaults for postgresql.conf WAL entries

* Add checkpoint_min_warning postgresql.conf option to warn about checkpoints

* Change representation of whole-tuple parameters to functions

* Evaluate AIX cs() spinlock macro for performance optimizations (Tatsuo)

* Clarify use of 'application' and 'command' tags in SGML docs

* Allow ability to easily build only certain interfaces (Marc)

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