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                          7 . 3  O P E N    I T E M S


Current at ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/open_items.

Source Code Changes
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Schema handling - ready? interfaces? client apps?
Drop column handling - ready for all clients, apps?
have pg_dumpall dump out db privilege and per-user/db settings
fix implicit type coercions that are worse
Prepared statements - to be reviewed  (Tom)
improve macros in new tuple header code  (Tom)
integrate or move to gborg libpqxx, Pg:DBD
Allow PL/PgSQL functions to return sets  (Neil)
Allow easy display of usernames in a group (pg_hba.conf uses groups now)
fix BeOS and QNX4 ports

On Hold
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Point-in-time recovery - status? (J.R., Richard)
Win32 port
Security audit

Documentation Changes
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Mention foreign keys and SERIAL dependencies will not be in 7.2 loaded tables
Document need to add permissions to loaded functions and languages