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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Fri, 17 May 2002 13:58:41 +0200
Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
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:
21 May 2002 00:35:20 +0500
Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
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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Tue, 21 May 2002 10:18:33 +0200
Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
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



21 May 2002 14:00:22 +0200
Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
Re: Future plans