As you can see, the open items list is greatly shrunk. We have two
weeks to go and most of these seems do-able, except for point-in-time
recovery, which may not make it. I haven't heard anything recently on
it.
Would someone put together a porting document for schema changes and
drop column changes?
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Current at ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/open_items.
Source Code Changes
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Point-in-time recovery - status? (J.R., Richard)
Schema handling - ready? interfaces? client apps?
Drop column handling - ready for all clients, apps?
ecpg and bison issues - solved? (Michael)
have pg_dumpall dump out db privilege and per-user/db settings
fix implicit type coercions that are worse
Prepared statements - to be reviewed (Tom)
improve macros in new tuple header code (Tom)
integrate or move to gborg libpqxx, Pg:DBD
Allow PL/PgSQL functions to return sets (Neil)
Allow easy display of usernames in a group (pg_hba.conf uses groups now)
fix BeOS and QNX4 ports
Documentation Changes
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Mention foreign keys and SERIAL dependencies will not be in 7.2 loaded tables
Document need to add permissions to loaded functions and languages
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