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Contents 1 Wishlist for PostgreSQL 8.4.0 1.1 Proposed 1.2 Postponed 1.3 Submitted 1.4 Committed 1.5 References

Wishlist for PostgreSQL 8.4.0

Note: this list just attempts to track the commitment from the relevant authors. As such it does not say anything about if the code will be accepted or not.

Proposed

• Updatable VIEWs (Bernd)
• Fix permissions properly on custom GUC vars (Andrew Dunstan)
• Create a mechanism for plperl to load modules safely (Andrew Dunstan)
• Notification payload messages (Andrew Dunstan)
• non-recursive WITH (Gregory Stark)
• Better handling of partitioning (Nikhils)
• WITH RECURSIVE hierarchical queries (Gregory Stark)
• SQL:2003 windowing queries (Gavin)
• Index Advisor (Gurjeet Singh)
• Updates using subselect (Nikhils)
• large file support (Zdenek Kotala)
• IDENTITY/GENERATED patches (Zoltan Boszormenyi)
• SQL/PSM support per SQL:2003 (patch)(Pavel)
• EXECUTE USING (Pavel)
• Group commit (Heikki Linnakangas)
• Dead space map (ITAGAKI Takahiro)
• On disk bitmap index (Gavin Sherry, Heikki Linnakangas)
• Concurrent psql (Gregory Stark)
• Grouped Index Tuples (Heikki Linnakangas)¨
• Procedures for PL/pgSQL and PL/PSM (Pavel)

Postponed

(the person who initially said he could do it in time for 8.4, now says he cannot)

Submitted

(this stuff is ready for testing/pending review or feedback and is therefore proposed for inclusion in 8.4)

Committed

(this features are already committed to -HEAD and will likely appear in 8.4)

References

Relevant pgsql-hackers threads: Project roadmap:

• Roadmap