Todo:WishlistFor84

Wishlist for PostgreSQL 8.4.0

This list ist not maintained any more - please look at here for features proposed for the current commitfest or the featurematrix for a list of recently added features. We also keep a list of TODO items done for 8.4.

Proposed

• Updatable VIEWs (Bernd)
• On disk bitmap index (Gavin Sherry, Heikki Linnakangas)
• Temporal data type

Postponed

• Concurrent psql (Gregory Stark)
• Create a mechanism for plperl to load modules safely (Andrew Dunstan)
• Fix permissions properly on custom GUC vars (Andrew Dunstan)
• Group commit (Heikki Linnakangas)
• Grouped Index Tuples (Heikki Linnakangas)¨
• large file support (Zdenek Kotala)
• MERGE (Simon Riggs)
• Notification payload messages (Andrew Dunstan)
• Stacked recordset (multirecordset)
• Updates using subselect (Nikhils)
• Better handling of partitioning (Nikhils)
• Index Advisor (Gurjeet Singh)
• SQL/PSM support per SQL:2003 (patch)(Pavel)

Done

• EXECUTE USING (Pavel)
• WITH and WITH RECURSIVE hierarchical queries (Yoshiyuki Asaba with help from Tatsuo Ishii and Tom Lane)
• Visibility map / Dead space map (Heikki Linnakangas)
• SQL:2003 window functions (Hitoshi Harada)