TODO list for PostgreSQL

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Last updated:Wed Nov 19 12:33:55 EST 2003

Last updated:Wed Nov 19 12:35:29 EST 2003

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

The most recent version of this document can be viewed at

the PostgreSQL web site, http://www.PostgreSQL.org.

A dash (-) marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 7.4 release.

A dash (-) marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 7.5 release.

Bracketed items "[]" have more detailed.

* Improve caching of attribute offsets when NULLs exist in the row

* Add a script to ask system configuration questions and tune postgresql.conf

* Allow partitioning of table into multiple subtables

* Use background process to write dirty shared buffers to disk

*-Use background process to write dirty shared buffers to disk

Source Code

* Acquire lock on a relation before building a relcache entry for it

* Research interaction of setitimer() and sleep() used by statement_timeout

* Add checks for fclose() failure

* Change CVS $Id: TODO,v 1.1170 2003/11/19 17:34:01 momjian Exp $ to $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/TODO,v 1.1170 2003/11/19 17:34:01 momjian Exp $

* Change CVS $Id: TODO,v 1.1171 2003/11/19 17:35:40 momjian Exp $ to $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/TODO,v 1.1171 2003/11/19 17:35:40 momjian Exp $

* Exit postmaster if postgresql.conf can not be opened

* Rename /scripts directory because they are all C programs now

* Allow the regression tests to start postmaster with -i so the tests