Re: todo - I want the elog() thingy

> > * Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
> > number, not just messages [elog]

I bags this one. A nice relatively easy place for me to start hacken' the
Postges. Which source tree do I diff and patch against? Er, I have no idea
how to use these diff and patch things but I know that a manual exists.

How do I get the CVS source tree? Surely I don't have to download the whole
thing every day? I only have 1KB/sec of connectivity and it's extremely
expensive ($300/month).

Can I just download the files for elog() and do it that way, and I'll write
some driver function to unit test it, and send the patch when I'm done to
the patches list.

Any developers got some tips for me?

---
James

----- Original Message -----
From: "Oleg Bartunov" <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 7.2 items

> I'd like to have partial sorting implemented in 7.2.
> While it's rather narrow optimization for case ORDER BY ... LIMIT ...
> it has big (in my opinion) impact to Web application.
> We get up to 6x performance improvement in our experiments with our very
> crude patch for 7.1. The idea is very simple - stop sorting when we get
> requested rows. Unfortunately, our knowledge of internals is poor and
> we need some help.
>
> Regards,
> Oleg
>
> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Here is a small list of big TODO items. I was wondering which ones
> > people were thinking about for 7.2?
> >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
> >
> > * Add replication of distributed databases [replication]
> > o automatic fallover
> > o load balancing
> > o master/slave replication
> > o multi-master replication
> > o partition data across servers
> > o sample implementation in contrib/rserv
> > o queries across databases or servers (two-phase commit)
> > * Point-in-time data recovery using backup and write-ahead log
> > * Allow row re-use without vacuum (Vadim)
> > * Add the concept of dataspaces/tablespaces [tablespaces]
> > * Allow better control over user privileges [privileges]
> > * Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
> > number, not just messages [elog]
> > * Allow international error message support and add error codes [elog]
> > * Make binary/file in/out interface for TOAST columns
> > * Large object interface improvements
> > * Allow inherited tables to inherit index, UNIQUE constraint, and
primary key
> > [inheritance]
> > * Add ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN feature [drop]
> > * Add ALTER TABLE ... DROP CONSTRAINT
> > * Automatically drop constraints/functions when object is dropped
> >
> >
>
> Regards,
> Oleg
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