Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (pgman@s5-03.ppp.op.net [209.152.195.67]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA53247; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 23:56:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.9.0/8.9.0) id XAA24372; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 23:56:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200004110356.XAA24372@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Updated docs needed for 7.0 To: PostgreSQL-development , PostgreSQL-documentation Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 23:56:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL72 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive-Number: 200004/28 OK, I have talked to Thomas and have found which items need work for 7.0. Comments please. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Add CmdTuples() to libpq++(Vince) > New CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER and SET CONSTRAINTS commands(Jan) > ALTER TABLE CONSTRAINT > First real FOREIGN KEY constraint trigger functionality (Jan) > Add FOREIGN KEY ... MATCH FULL ... ON DELETE CASCADE (Jan) > Add FOREIGN KEY ... MATCH referential actions (Don Baccus) > Add ALTER TABLE ... ADD FOREIGN KEY (Stephan Szabo) Needs much more work. > Add ecpg EXEC SQL IFDEF, EXEC SQL IFNDEF, EXEC SQL ELSE, EXEC SQL ELIF > and EXEC SQL ENDIF directives ecpg.sgml? > Updated user interfaces on initdb, initlocation, pg_dump, ipcclean (Peter E) Need updating of switches. > New libpq functions PQsetClientEncoding(), PQclientEncoding() (Tatsuo) Documented, but only in README.mb. Is that OK? > New lztext data type for compressed text fields Not documented. I think we want to document it, no? > New C-routines to implement a BIT and BIT VARYING type in /contrib > (Adriaan Joubert) Let's hold on this one. -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026