PostgreSQL TODO List

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

Last updated:Mon Mar 6 10:13:39 EST 2006

Last updated:Mon Mar 6 10:19:42 EST 2006

The most recent version of this document can be viewed at

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.

o Add COPY TO STDIN / STDOUT handling

libpq

*libpq

o Add a function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability

o Add PQescapeIdentifier()

code from the LibGW32C project as a guide.

o Port contrib/xml2

o Check WSACancelBlockingCall() for interrupts (win32intr)

* Wire Protocol Changes

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<h1><aname="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>

<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<ahref="mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</a>)<br/>

Last updated: Mon Mar 6 10:13:39 EST 2006

Last updated: Mon Mar 6 10:19:42 EST 2006

<p>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<br/>

<ahref="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html</a>.

</li><li>Add internationalized message strings

</li><li>Add COPY TO STDIN / STDOUT handling

<p>libpq

<li>Add a function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability

</li><li>Add PQescapeIdentifier()

</li><li>Prevent PQfnumber() from lowercasing unquoted the column name

</li><li>libpq

<li>Add a function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability

</li><li>Add PQescapeIdentifier()

</li><li>Prevent PQfnumber() from lowercasing unquoted the column name

<p> PQfnumber() should never have been doing lowercasing, but

historically it has so we need a way to prevent it

</li><li>Allow statement results to be automatically batched to the client

</li><li>Allow statement results to be automatically batched to the client

<p> Currently, all statement results are transferred to the libpq

client before libpq makes the results available to the

application. This feature would allow the application to make

One complexity is that a statement like SELECT 1/col could error

out mid-way through the result set.

<h1><aname="section_10">Referential Integrity</a></h1>

code from the LibGW32C project as a guide.

</li><li>Port contrib/xml2

</li><li>Check WSACancelBlockingCall() for interrupts (win32intr)

</li><li>Wire Protocol Changes