PostgreSQL 9.2 Open Items

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Revision as of 15:40, 9 June 2012

Project Planning

See the PostgreSQL 9.2 Development Plan.

Meta-Issues

• Review "Long Term" list of items from PostgreSQL 9.0 Open Items and PostgreSQL 9.1 Open Items

Open Issues

indexing

• Put a bound on memory usage when building large GiST indexes. (see last paragraph of this mail)
• GiST indexes vs fuzzy comparisons used by geometric types
  • Alexander proposed a patch that would support the current behavior, but should we change the behavior instead?
• SP-GiST is unsafe for use by hot standby slaves

other

• simple_prompt uses wrong charset (Windows)
• WAL files which were restored from the archive are archived again.
• Should we fix tuple limit handling, or redefine 9.x behavior as correct?
  • The consensus seems to be to change the documentation to match the current behavior.
• warning on incorrect parameters in libpq URL format is a potential security problem and should be changed to error
• incorrect handling of the timeout in pg_receivexlog
  • rhaas committed the patch
  • problem still exists

Resolved Issues

• streaming backup should not be considered as sync standby.
• Documentation needs updating wrt visibility map/index-only scans
• change GiST implementation for range types?
• pglesslog still referenced in docs, but no 9.1 support
• Should we change the behavior of extract(epoch from timestamp)?
• search_path behavioral change
• Replace bytea_agg with string_agg(bytea,bytea)?
• pg_size_pretty(numeric)
• Reconsider the names of valid values of synchronous_commit
  • call for opinions
• nodes/*funcs.c inconsistencies
• Parameterized-path costing still needs some work
• Change syntax for non-inherited CHECK constraints?
• Aggressive memory consumption in {ts,array}_typanalyze
• Auto-ANALYZE can prevent all-visible flags from getting set, leading to failure to use index-only scans
  • I've hacked the regression test case to prevent the intermittent failure. Fixing auto-ANALYZE so that the problem doesn't arise would be nice, but it seems like a research project; added that to TODO.
• patch: plpython triggers are broken for composite-type columns
• Inconsistent units in pg_stat_statements
• psql omits row count under "\x auto"
• Update the sample ps output in "monitoring-ps" section of the manual to include the new checkpointer process
• Release-note PL case folding incompatibility
• checkpointer gets confused after crash-and-restart
  • On closer inspection, this was pilot error, namely misuse of the postmaster -T feature.
• Checkpointer latch loop [Simon]
  • I've hacked that area of the code until it looks OK to me, is there something else you had in mind? -- tgl - no thats fine - sr
• Double check bgwriter/checkpointer comments
  • I made a pass over these, does anyone want to do more? -- tgl
• Check new processes listed correctly in postmaster comments
  • I made a pass over these, does anyone want to do more? -- tgl
• Make XLOG_HEAP2_VISIBLE records generate recovery snapshot conflicts so that IndexOnlyScans work on Hot Standby + bug fix by sr
  • analysis
  • committed patch - still would be nice to throw a soft conflict instead of a hard one
• Correct docs for SP-GIST so that example implementations shown/referred to/examples given - unusably opaque at present
  • Huh? There is a pointer to the example opclasses, and in general the SPGiST docs seem to me to be at least as good as those for GiST or GIN - tgl
• pg_basebackup -x stream from the standby gets stuck if there is no traffic in the database
• pg_receivexlog requires manually restarting whenever the sending server restarts
  • A brief discussion offline came up with the suggested options --auto-reconnect --auto-disconnect
• Fix bug about not using InHotStandby when throwing recovery conflicts [Simon]
• Checkpointer doesn't send stats promptly [Simon]
• Fix start order: check pointer must start before bgwriter to catch fsync requests [Simon]
• Bgwriter needs to close file handles [Simon]
• B-tree page deletion boundary cases [Simon]
• libpq URL syntax needs work for unix-socket addresses
  • proposed patch, commited
• pg_size_pretty(numeric)
  • decided not to change this
• Start warning on CREATE {GLOBAL | LOCAL} TEMPORARY TABLE? [Simon]