CommitFest 2008-03

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CommitFest - March 2008

This commitfest is now closed All items in this commitfest have been reviewed and actioned. If you have a new patch to submit, please add it at CommitFestOpen.

This first CommitFest relied on Bruce's patch queue as its primary input:

• Patch Status Overview
• Bruce's Patch Queue
• Bruce's list of patches pending review
• Bruce's list of patches held for the next commitfest

Pending patches

Below is the list of patches to be reviewed during the March Commitfest. If you have comments on them, please add them below each one, prepending each line with a colon (:).

If a patch must be punted to the next Commitfest, please remove it from here and add it there.

Committed patches

If you commit a patch, please move it below this heading.

Friendly help for psql

Fix pg_dump dependency on postgres.h

Truncate Triggers

Better psql tab-completion support for schemas and tables

suggested wording improvement in psql

REFERENCED BY in psql

Add size/acl information when listing databases

Integer datetimes

execute using

Implemented current_query

rewrite numeric division

plpgsql, forc statement

Reviewed patches

SQL-language reference parameters by name v1.1

review

script binaries renaming

We must conduct a poll on a wide audience, say pgsql-general. Zdenek?

The poll seemed to agree that a "pgc" prefix command was the way to do it.

Updated WITH clause patch (non-recursive)

Fragments in tsearch2 headline

Needs to be updated to apply against core tsearch instead of contrib. Teodor had other suggestions too.

SQL/PSM

This isn't maintainable unless it's refactored to eliminate code duplication with plpgsql.

psql slash# command

Author will revise based on discussion.

Consistent \d commands in psql

Discussion led to a redesign that now needs to be implemented.

preread pages in bitmap index scan using posix_fadvise

reviewed by: Simon, Heikki, Martijn

Headers dependencies cleanup

A more thorough investigation of layering of these header files has been requested.

updated hash functions for postgresql v1

The word-wide-hashing aspect of this has been cleaned up and applied; we still need to find out if we want to use the new mix() macro.

Auto-explain patch

Reviewed by Simon, needs more work to be ready

Ordered Append WIP patch v1

Reviewed here and here

SET TRANSACTION conformance to SQL:2003

Not needed, per discussion

libpq type system

latest patch

start of April 2008 discussion

Concurrent psql

This is not proposed for application yet, but Greg needs feedback

review of the UI