On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 07:22:54PM -0500, Neil Conway wrote:
> (1) Add an optional textual message to NOTIFY
>
> (2) Remove the hard-coded limits on database and user names
> (SM_USER, SM_DATABASE), replace them with variable-length
> fields.
>
> (3) Remove some legacy elements in the startup packet
> ('unused' can go -- perhaps 'tty' as well). I think the
> 'length' field of the password packet is also not used,
> but I'll need to double-check that.
>
> (4) Fix the COPY protocol (Tom?)
>
> (5) Fix the Fastpath protocol (Tom?)
>
> (6) Protocol-level support for prepared queries, in order to
> bypass the parser (and maybe be more compatible with the
> implementation of prepared queries in other databases).
>
> (7) Include the current transaction status, since it's
> difficult for the client app to determine it for certain
> (Tom/Bruce?)
(8) Error codes (maybe needn't change protocol) - without this is PostgreSQL useless in real DB aplication
(9) Think about full dynamic charset encoding (add new encoding on the fly)
Karel
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