On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 07:22:54PM -0500, Neil Conway wrote: > (1) Add an optional textual message to NOTIFY > > (2) Remove the hard-coded limits on database and user names > (SM_USER, SM_DATABASE), replace them with variable-length > fields. > > (3) Remove some legacy elements in the startup packet > ('unused' can go -- perhaps 'tty' as well). I think the > 'length' field of the password packet is also not used, > but I'll need to double-check that. > > (4) Fix the COPY protocol (Tom?) > > (5) Fix the Fastpath protocol (Tom?) > > (6) Protocol-level support for prepared queries, in order to > bypass the parser (and maybe be more compatible with the > implementation of prepared queries in other databases). > > (7) Include the current transaction status, since it's > difficult for the client app to determine it for certain > (Tom/Bruce?)
(8) Error codes (maybe needn't change protocol) - without this is PostgreSQL useless in real DB aplication (9) Think about full dynamic charset encoding (add new encoding on the fly) Karel -- Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/ C, PostgreSQL, PHP, WWW, http://docs.linux.cz, http://mape.jcu.cz ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html