PostgreSQL 8.4 Open Items

This is a list of tasks that need to finish before 8.4 is complete. Current version at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_8.4_Open_Items

Changes

• Change behavior of statement-level triggers for inheritance cases?
• reject xpath() when data is not a well-formed document?

Bugs

• problems with Windows global namespace

Questions

• Should we have a LOCALE option in CREATE DATABASE?
• Should we reject toast.fillfactor in reloptions? Because toast tables are never updated.
• Consider reverting preventing regular users from base type creation

Documentation

• document visibility map, proposed manual change
• document removal of log_restartpoints, and the rest of the recovery infra patch
• charset.sgml still claims you need initdb to change LC_COLLATE/LC_CTYPE.