Future plans

Started by Michael Meskesalmost 24 years ago4 messageshackers
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#1Michael Meskes
meskes@postgresql.org

Hi,

what do we have planned for the next release? In the TODO file there are
quite a lot of points but I don't like to talk about things we will
eventually do, but would like to present what we will implement for 7.3
resp. 8.0.

IMO the most important stuff seems to be:

- replication (which is listed as urgent anyway)
- alter table drop column (for which I get asked about once a week)
- recursive views (you know, I wanted to implement this when I started
my work on PostgreSQL, but never found the time)

Michael

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#2Hannu Krosing
hannu@tm.ee
In reply to: Michael Meskes (#1)
Re: Future plans

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 16:58, Michael Meskes wrote:

Hi,

IMO the most important stuff seems to be:

...

- recursive views (you know, I wanted to implement this when I started
my work on PostgreSQL, but never found the time)

A good start would be to make the parser recognize the full sql99 syntax
for it. Its quite big - see attached gif I generated from grammar
extracted from the standard:

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#3Michael Meskes
meskes@postgresql.org
In reply to: Hannu Krosing (#2)
Re: Future plans

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:35:20AM +0500, Hannu Krosing wrote:

- recursive views (you know, I wanted to implement this when I started
my work on PostgreSQL, but never found the time)

A good start would be to make the parser recognize the full sql99 syntax
for it. Its quite big - see attached gif I generated from grammar
extracted from the standard:

Well, the parser seems to be the easier part. :-)

Michael

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#4Hannu Krosing
hannu@tm.ee
In reply to: Michael Meskes (#3)
Re: Future plans

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 10:18, Michael Meskes wrote:

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:35:20AM +0500, Hannu Krosing wrote:

- recursive views (you know, I wanted to implement this when I started
my work on PostgreSQL, but never found the time)

A good start would be to make the parser recognize the full sql99 syntax
for it. Its quite big - see attached gif I generated from grammar
extracted from the standard:

Well, the parser seems to be the easier part. :-)

Sure.

My point was that we should put in the _full_ syntax in one shot and
then we could implement in smaller pieces.

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Hannu