Re: 7.4 Wishlist

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Philip Warner" <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
Subject: Re: 7.4 Wishlist
Date: 2002-11-30 00:56:24
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> I've actually started working on pg_dump in the background, but if you
want
> to do it let me know.

Nah - you can do it! I don't have much time to code Postgres as it is.
I'll stick to working on making ADD COLUMN compliant.

> In terms of things I would like to see:
>
> - background/integrated vacuum (not just an overwriting storage manager)

Work has started on this already, which is neat.

> - insert/update...returning

That would be so useful for our web app where we're always needing to get
the primary key as opposed to oid. We keep needing to requery.

> - function result caches -- assuming I can demonstrate that they are a
Good
> Thing.
>
> - COPY TO/FROM with a list of columns (maybe we have it?) - it's useful
for
> making metadata changes then reloading data (Inserts are much slower).

We do already have it in 7.3:

http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/sql-copy.html

Chris

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