PostgreSQL 9.2 Open Items

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Contents 1 Project Planning 2 Meta-Issues 3 Open Issues 4 Interactions and Cross checks 5 Resolved Issues

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

• Make XLOG_HEAP2_VISIBLE records generate recovery snapshot conflicts so that IndexOnlyScans work on Hot Standby
• Release-note PL case folding incompatibility
• change GiST implementation for range types?
• Bgwriter needs to close file handles [Simon]
• Checkpointer latch loop [Simon]
• Reconsider the names of valid values of synchronous_commit
• Update the sample ps output in "monitoring-ps" section of the manual to include the new checkpointer process
• Correct docs for SP-GIST so that example implementations shown/referred to/examples given - unusably opaque at present

Interactions and Cross checks

• Remove parameter passing from WALReceiver and WALRestore code if recovery.conf becomes GUCs
• Double check bgwriter/checkpointer comments
• Check new processes listed correctly in postmaster comments

Resolved Issues