From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199808250356.XAA04310@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 items
In-Reply-To: <25977.904006878@sss.pgh.pa.us> from Tom Lane at "Aug 24,
	1998  9: 1:18 pm"
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane)
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:56:30 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
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> Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > With the 6.4 beta just over a week away, here are the open items I see
> > for 6.4.  We actually have fewer than usual, so that is a good thing. 
> 
> I had a few other things on my list:
> 
> * make PGconn,PGresult truly opaque to applications (per recent discussion)
> * libpgtcl is missing any way to access PQerrorMessage!?
> * remove writable fields in static PQconninfoOptions for thread safety
> * bring libpq.sgml documentation fully up to speed
> 
> (I'm willing to do the above four, but am not promising that the doco
> will get done before Sept 1.  I think Thomas indicated that Sept 15
> is OK for docs?)

Sounds good to me.

> 
> * put UNLISTEN in standard backend, fix libpgtcl listen support to use it
> 
> I would really like to see this in 6.4, because I need UNLISTEN in my
> applications.  Thomas had volunteered to add the needed parser support
> for UNLISTEN (the execution function already exists, it just needs a
> statement that can call it).  As far as I've heard he hasn't gotten to
> it yet.  I can fix libpgtcl but do not want to touch it unless the
> underlying backend support is there.
> 
> * psql: control-c ought to stop lengthy output
> * psql's \z output truncates table names at 16 chars
> * psql and libpgtcl insert unexpected backslashes in output data
> 
> I was going to work on these but it's looking like they will not make
> the Sept 1 cut.  Anyone else want to do them?

Not really sure anyone else knows those areas.  I am surprised by the
psql \z.  Of course, if you add the "features" now, you can fix the bugs
during beta.

> 
> 
> > change pg args for platforms that don't support argv changes
> > 	(setproctitle()?, sendmail hack?)
> 
> I'd like to see this in there too, and will work on it if no one else
> does, but I rather doubt I can get to it by Sept 1.  Maybe this will
> have to wait for 6.5, or 6.4.1, or something.

Again, can be done later.  Will be a problem without the fix.

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