Re: Open 7.3 issues

Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2002-08-15T05:36:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 	Point-in-time recovery - ready for 7.3?
> 
> This seems very unlikely now.  Status?


It would be a shame to have to wait for 7.4 for this one.


> 	glibc and mktime() - fix?
> 
> I can do the work on this I need more info and no one seems to be
> conerned.


I'm concerned, but in the few moments I've had to play with this, what 
looked like the obvious fix didn't seem to work (I was hacking on glibc 
itself though).


> 	Allow PL/PgSQL functions to return sets
> 
> Is anyone working on this?  We will get beaten up if we don't have this
> for 7.3 and it is available in other languages.


I saw Neil's response. I'll jump in to help if he needs any.


> 
> 	Fix bytea to not encode input string
> 
> Not sure we can do these.

As I said, it isn't clear to me how this can be fixed without a fe/be 
protocol change. But if someone can point me in the direction of a 
viable fix for 7.3, I'll dive in.

Joe