CommitFest 2009-First Archive

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Pending patches

Patch	Status	Author	Reviewers
Security
Security Enhanced PostgreSQL	Pending review	KaiGai Kohei	Nobody
KaiGai says: The SE-PostgreSQL online documentation provides brief overview.
KaiGai says: Jul.1: Here is the latest patch (r2096).
Robert Haas says: 2009-07-02 author has not incorporated previous feedback
Security checks on LargeObject	WIP	KaiGai Kohei	Nobody
KaiGai says: Here is a discussion note.
KaiGai says: It should be reworked with LO-I/F on TOAST?
user mapping extension to pg_ident.conf	Pending review	Lars Kanis	Nobody
Lars Kanis says: More description of the use followed here
Replication
Synch Rep	WIP	Fujii Masao	Simon Riggs
Robert Haas says: does not apply cleanly, and some strategy questions
Provide support for multiplexing SIGUSR1 signal	Pending review	Fujii Masao	Nobody
Non-blocking communication between a frontend and a backend (pqcomm)	Pending review	Fujii Masao	Nobody
Performance
join removal	Pending review	Robert Haas	Nobody
tgl says: there's some relevant info about antijoins here
ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET DISTINCT	Pending review	Robert Haas	Nobody
Revise parallel pg_restore's scheduling heuristic	Needs performance testing	Tom Lane	Nobody
tgl says: There is only a theoretical argument that this might be better than what's there now; we need testing to see if the theory is right.
Set PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag in HOT pruning	Pending review	Pavan Deolasee	Nobody
TOAST MAIN out-of-line reluctantly	Pending review	Kevin Grittner	Nobody
Kevin Grittner says: Version 2 minor refactoring to avoid duplicated code
SIGPIPE masking in local socket connections	Pending review	Jeremy Kerr	Nobody
Avoid manual shift-and-test logic in AllocSetFreeIndex	Pending review	Jeremy Kerr	Nobody
Contrib modules
async notifications for dblink	Pending review	Marcus Kempe	Joe Conway
query cancel issues in dblink	Pending review	Itagaki Takahiro	Joe Conway
hstore enhancements	Pending review	Andrew Gierth	Nobody
multi-threaded pgbench	Pending review	Itagaki Takahiro	Nobody
Clients
\dL for languages	Waiting on author	Fernando Ike	Peter Eisentraut
Robert Haas says: 2009-07-02 Peter's review
pg_dump Add dumping of comments on columns of composite types	Pending review	Taro Minowa (Higepon)	Nobody
WIP: TODO Item 'Add prompt escape to display the client and server versions'	WIP	Dickson S. Guedes	Peter Eisentraut
ECPG dynamic cursor, SQLDA support	Pending review	Zoltan Boszormenyi	Nobody
ECPG support for string pseudo-type v2	Pending review	Zoltan Boszormenyi	Nobody
SQL language features
Named and mixed notation for PL (deprecated link)	Pending review	Pavel Stehule	Nobody
Pavel Stehule says: final patch - changes: respect rules for defaults, fill unknown params in plan time
Steve Prentice says: plpgsql support - enhance plpgsql variable replacement to be aware of the AS keyword
Support for EEEE in to_char()	Pending review	Pavel Stehule, Brendan Jurd	Nobody
Brendan Jurd says: Version 2 with some fixes and improvements
DROP (COLUMN|CONSTRAINT) IF EXISTS support	Pending review	Andres Freund	Bernd Helmle
Ben Einstein says: thinks this could be a very useful feature
Auto-Partitioning	Pending review	Kedar Potdar	Simon Riggs
GRANT ON ALL IN schema	Pending review	Petr Jelinek	Nobody
Petr Jelinek says: Direct link to patch per Stephen Frost's request
Writeable CTEs	Pending review	David Fetter	Nobody
COPY WITH CSV FORCE QUOTE *	Pending review	Itagaki Takahiro	Nobody
EXPLAIN
explain refactoring v4	Pending review	Robert Haas	Nobody
generic explain options v3	Pending review	Robert Haas	Nobody
machine-readable explain output v2	Pending review	Robert Haas	Nobody
do_tup_output_datum v2	Pending review	Robert Haas	Nobody
Robert Haas says: this is a minor performance improvement for EXPLAIN and SHOW ALL regardless of the rest of the patches in this series, but the real benefit is that it makes it possible for EXPLAIN (FORMAT XML) to return type xml successfully even when --with-libxml is not used
Instrumentation
Lock wait statistics	Pending review	Mark Kirkwood	Nobody
Sampling Profiler	Pending review	Itagaki Takahiro	Nobody
Error Reporting
Have ParseConfigFile report all parsing errors	Pending review	Selena Deckelmann	Nobody
report key values in duplicate-key errors	Pending review	Itagaki Takahiro	Nobody
tgl says: refactor this could be used by other index AMs here
Miscellaneous
Add C++ support for backend and calls into C functions	Pending review	Kurt Harriman	Nobody
has_sequence_privilege() function	Pending review	Abhijit Menon-Sen	Joe Conway
Parser's hook based on FuncCall	Pending review	Pavel Stehule	Nobody
plpythonu datatype conversion improvements	Pending review	Caleb Welton	Peter Eisentraut
replace plpgsql_dstring by StringInfo	Pending review	Pavel Stehule	Joe Conway
Fix memory leak in win32 security functions	Ready for committer	Magnus Hagander	Andrew Chernow
Robert Haas says: If this has been reviewed on -hackers, there should be a link here to the review. If not, that should probably be happen before this is marked ready for committer.
Magnus Hagander says: The review is in the thread...
pg_standby link dependencies	Ready for committer	Fujii Masao	Simon Riggs
Make pg_restore --clean to delete existing large objects	Pending review	Itagaki Takahiro	Nobody
pg_listener attribute number #defines	Pending review	Robert Haas	Peter Eisentraut
dependencies for generated header files	Pending review	Robert Haas	Peter Eisentraut
autogenerating headers & bki stuff	Pending review	Robert Haas	Peter Eisentraut
Robert Haas says: if this last patch is applied, the previous two become moot
better support for win64 via intptr_t	Pending review	Tsutomu Yamada	Peter Eisentraut

Committed patches

Patch	Status	Author	Reviewers
\d shows child tables that inherit from the specified parent	Committed 2009-07-03	Damien Clochard	Peter Eisentraut
Robert Haas says: several people (Tom, Greg Sabino Mullane, myself) have wondered whether we really want this
SQL State in log_line_prefix	Committed 2009-07-03	Guillaume Smet	Peter Eisentraut
Shows method of index in \d	Committed 2009-07-06	Khee Chin	Peter Eisentraut

Returned with Feedback

Patch	Status	Author	Reviewers
add_path optimization	Returned for rework	Robert Haas	Tom Lane
tgl says: it doesn't seem to work
unalias of ACL_UPDATE_FOR_SELECT	Pending review	KaiGai Kohei	Nobody
KaiGai says: The matter is avoidable in another way.
psql display sequence owner	Pending review	Josh Williams	Peter Eisentraut
Josh Williams says: Please defer, patch is being redesigned.