Commitfest 2018-07 RFC items

As will be seen in the summary below, I think a good many of the RCF
items in the commitfest probably aren't. More than half of them need
more review, as I read the mailing list threads.

I propose to move them all to the next CF, but in many cases after
changing the to "needs review" or in one case "waiting on author".

One big wart remains in this list - the Fix LWLock degradation on NUMA
patch. Some committer who is comfortable in this area needs to pick it
up, or of we don't have such a person we should reject it instead of
making it go round and round like the Flying Dutchman.

I'll deal with the non-RFC items in separate email

cheers

andrew

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/18/1525/ postgres.exe doesn't output
crash dump when it crashes before main()
Still under discussion
Recommendation: change to "needs review" and move

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/18/669/ pgbench - allow to store
select results into variables
Latest patch has not been reviewed
Recommendation: change to "needs review" and move

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/18/1661/ Update psql tab completion
for multiple commits
Latest patch has been reviewed very recently
Recommendation: leave as RFC and move

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/18/1085/ XML XPath default namespace
support
No activity since January. I'm going to try to pick this one up in the
next few weeeks myself.
Recommendation: leave as RFC and move

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/18/1694/ Partition tree inspection
functions
Latest patch needs review
Recommendation: change to "needs review" and move

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/18/1166/ Fix LWLock degradation on NUMA
No real activity since November. Desperately needs a committer who is
prepared to take it on, or if not we should reject it.
Recommendation: leave as RFC and move

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/18/1389/ verify ALTER TABLE SET NOT
NULL by valid constraints
It's not clear that there is consensus that this is wanted.
Recommendation: change to "needs review" and move

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/18/1319/ Add ALWAYS DEFERRED option
for CONSTRAINTs and CONSTRAINT TRIGGERs
Latest patch needs further review
Recommendation: change to "needs review" and move

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/18/1522/ pg_hba.conf : new auth option
: clientcert=verify-full
Still some open discussion items
Recommendation: change to "needs review" and move

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/18/1647/ GSSAPI encryption support
No activity since June. Needs a committer
Recommendation: leave as RFC and move

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/18/713/ Correct space parsing in
to_timestamp()
Discussion ongoing
Recommendation: change to "needs review" and move

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/18/1160/ Improve geometric types
Some parts committed
Recommendation: leave as RFC and move

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/18/1294/ Custom compression methods
Needs rebase
Recommendation: change to "waiting on author" and move

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/18/1587/ kNN for SP-GiST
Recent review
Recommendation: leave as RFC and move

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/18/1629/ Allow COPY's 'text' format to
output a header
Recent Review
Recommendation: leave as RFC and move

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/18/1622/ A way to request the rotation
of server logs
Latest patch needs review
Recommendation: change to "needs review" and move

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/18/1707/ pg_stat_statements_reset()
update to reset specific statement statistics
Latest patch needs review
Recommendation: change to "needs review" and move

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