TODO list for PostgreSQL

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Last updated:Sat Oct4 14:19:54 EDT 2003

Last updated:Wed Oct8 15:33:48 EDT 2003

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

* 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

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 1.1142 2003/10/04 18:19:57 momjian Exp $ to $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/TODO,v 1.1142 2003/10/04 18:19:57 momjian Exp $

* Change CVS $Id: TODO,v 1.1143 2003/10/0819:33:53 momjian Exp $ to $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/TODO,v 1.1143 2003/10/0819:33:53 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