From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199810022158.RAA21802@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Open 6.4 items
To: hackers@postgreSQL.org (PostgreSQL-development)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 17:58:00 -0400 (EDT)
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Possible additions
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cidr/IP address type(Tom Helbekkmo, Bruce Momjian)
rewrite system(Jan)
notify fixes(Tom)

Serious Items
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change pg args for platforms that don't support argv changes
	(setproctitle()?, sendmail hack?)
have psql dump out rules text with new function
man pages/sgml synchronization
generate html/postscript documentation
generate postmaster pid file and remove flock/fcntl lock code
CREATE TABLE test (x text, s serial) fails if no database creation permission
regression test all platforms

Minor items
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cnf-ify still can exhaust memory, make SET KSQO more generic
permissions on indexes:  what do they do?  should it be prevented?
multi-verion concurrency control - work-in-progress for 6.5
improve reporting of syntax errors by showing location of error in query
use index with constants on functions
allow chaining of pages to allow >8k tuples
allow multiple generic operators in expressions without the use of parentheses
document/trigger/rule so changes to pg_shadow create pg_pwd
large objects orphanage
improve group handling
no min/max for oid type
improve PRIMARY KEY handling

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