Open 6.5 items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Here is the list.  Folks, if we are going to release in 13 days, we will
need to reduce the size of this list.  I started moving some of the
major items to the TODO list, but many are easy fixes that really should
be done by 6.5.

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Default of '' causes crash in some cases
shift/reduce conflict in grammar, SELECT ... FOR [UPDATE|CURSOR]
SELECT 1; SELECT 2 fails when sent not via psql, semicolon problem
SELECT * FROM test WHERE test IN (SELECT * FROM test) fails with strange error
Table with an element of type inet, will show "0.0.0.0/0" as "00/0"
When creating a table with either type inet or type cidr as a primary,unique  key, the "198.68.123.0/24" and
"198.68.123.0/27"are considered equal
 
Allow "col AS name" to use name in WHERE clause?  Is this ANSI? Works in GROUP BY
Make sure pg_internal.init concurrent generation can't cause unreliability
SELECT ... WHERE col ~ '(foo|bar)' works, but CHECK on table always fails
ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN to inherited table put column in wrong place
resno's, sublevelsup corrupt when reaching rewrite system
crypt_loadpwdfile() is mixing and (mis)matching memory allocation protocols, trying to use pfree() to release pwd_cache
vectorfrom realloc()
 
3 = sum(x) in rewrite system is a problem
Fix function pointer calls to take Datum args for char and int2 args(ecgs)

Do we want pg_dump -z to be the default?
pg_dump of groups fails
pg_dump -o -D does not work, and can not work currently, generate error?
psql \d should show precision
dumping out sequences should not be counted in pg_dump display

Make psql \help, man pages, and sgml reflect changes in grammar
Markup sql.sgml, Stefan's intro to SQL
Markup cvs.sgml, cvs and cvsup howto
Add figures to sql.sgml and arch-dev.sgml, both from Stefan
Include Jose's date/time history in User's Guide (neat!)
Generate Admin, User, Programmer hardcopy postscript

Future TODO items
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Make Serial its own type
Add support for & operator
store binary-compatible type information in the system somewhere 
add ability to add comments to system tables using table/colname combination
process const=const parts of OR clause in separate pass
make oid use oidin/oidout not int4in/int4out in pg_type.h, make oid useunsigned int more reliably, pg_atoi()
CREATE VIEW ignores DISTINCT
Move LIKE index optimization handling to the optimizer?
Allow ESCAPE '\' at the end of LIKE for ANSI compliance, or rewrite theLIKE handling by rewriting the user string with
thesupplied ESCAPE
 
Fix leak for expressions?, aggregates?
Improve LIMIT processing by using index to limit rows processed
CLUSTER failure if vacuum has not been performed in a while
CREATE OPERATOR *= (leftarg=_varchar, rightarg=varchar, procedure=array_varchareq); fails, varchar is reserved word,
quoteswork
 
Improve Subplan list handling
Allow Subplans to use efficient joins(hash, merge) with upper variable
Update reltuples from COPY command
CREATE INDEX zman_index ON test (date_trunc( 'day', zman ) datetime_ops) failsindex can't store constant parameters,
allowSQL function indexes?
 
Improve NULL parameter passing into functions


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