diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO index 2300df8151bcbc440795f87558dbe19a0f539139..fcecf0a6f40b6999a1ab673e70bca0ebbe86be5f 100644 --- a/doc/TODO +++ b/doc/TODO @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Administration pg_stop_backup() is called or the server is stopped Doing this will allow administrators to know more easily when - the archive contins all the files needed for point-in-time + the archive contains all the files needed for point-in-time recovery. o %Create dump tool for write-ahead logs for use in determining @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ Data Types * Fix data types where equality comparison isn't intuitive, e.g. box * %Prevent INET cast to CIDR if the unmasked bits are not zero, or zero the bits -* %Prevent INET cast to CIDR from droping netmask, SELECT '1.1.1.1'::inet::cidr +* %Prevent INET cast to CIDR from dropping netmask, SELECT '1.1.1.1'::inet::cidr * Allow INET + INT4 to increment the host part of the address, or throw an error on overflow * %Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery @@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ SQL Commands This might require some background daemon to maintain clustering during periods of low usage. It might also require tables to be only - paritally filled for easier reorganization. Another idea would + partially filled for easier reorganization. Another idea would be to create a merged heap/index data file so an index lookup would automatically access the heap data too. A third idea would be to store heap rows in hashed groups, perhaps using a user-supplied @@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ Clients Currently, while \e saves a single statement as one entry, interactive statements are saved one line at a time. Ideally all statements - whould be saved like \e does. + would be saved like \e does. o Allow multi-line column values to align in the proper columns @@ -664,10 +664,10 @@ libpq o Allow statement results to be automatically batched to the client - Currently, all statement results are transfered to the libpq + Currently, all statement results are transferred to the libpq client before libpq makes the results available to the application. This feature would allow the application to make - use of the first result rows while the rest are transfered, or + use of the first result rows while the rest are transferred, or held on the server waiting for them to be requested by libpq. One complexity is that a statement like SELECT 1/col could error out mid-way through the result set. @@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ Exotic Features * Add the features of packages - o Make private objects accessable only to objects in the same schema + o Make private objects accessible only to objects in the same schema o Allow current_schema.objname to access current schema objects o Add session variables o Allow nested schemas @@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ Cache Usage * Add estimated_count(*) to return an estimate of COUNT(*) - This would use the planner ANALYZE statistatics to return an estimated + This would use the planner ANALYZE statistics to return an estimated count. * Allow data to be pulled directly from indexes @@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ Cache Usage o Query results * Allow sequential scans to take advantage of other concurrent - sequentiqal scans, also called "Synchronised Scanning" + sequential scans, also called "Synchronised Scanning" One possible implementation is to start sequential scans from the lowest numbered buffer in the shared cache, and when reaching the end wrap @@ -893,7 +893,7 @@ Vacuum * Improve speed with indexes - For large table adjustements during VACUUM FULL, it is faster to + For large table adjustments during VACUUM FULL, it is faster to reindex rather than update the index. * Reduce lock time during VACUUM FULL by moving tuples with read lock, @@ -942,7 +942,7 @@ Startup Time Improvements This would prevent the overhead associated with process creation. Most operating systems have trivial process creation time compared to - database startup overhead, but a few operating systems (WIn32, + database startup overhead, but a few operating systems (Win32, Solaris) might benefit from threading. Also explore the idea of a single session using multiple threads to execute a statement faster.