Re: [HACKERS] Updated TODO list

> ADMIN
> 
> * Allow international error message support and add error codes
> 
> The JDBC driver already has the international error message support. All
> it needs are some translations of the errors.properties file.
> 
> It would be easy to add error codes to it.

Good.  I think Vadim wasn't codes from the backend for scripts and
stuff.

> 
> TYPES
> 
> * Large objects
>     o Fix large object mapping scheme, own typeid or reltype(Peter)
>     o Allow large text type to use large objects(Peter)
> 
> I hope to these two done for 6.6

Good. I can help too.

> 
>     o Not to stuff everything as files in a single directory, hash
> dirs
>     o Allow large object vacuuming

> Do you mean vacuuming within a large objects table, or removing orphaned
> ones?

Tom Lane says you can get multiple versions of a large object in the
file, and there is no way to remove them.

> A solution for orphaning is in contrib, although it still needs some
> work.
> 
> On the JDBC front, I'm planning for 6.6:
> 
> * Array support
> * Large Object Stream support
> * More JDBC2 API implemented
> 
> But the big one will be to get the driver to use the current protocol.
> Up until now, it's been using the 6.3 backend protocol. Now that the
> current driver supports JDBC2, I want to get it up to date.

Cool.

> This will mean that the 6.6 driver will not be backward compatible with
> earlier backends (I can't remember which one started using the current
> protocol). The 6.5 driver does support 6.3 and 6.4.x backends.

That is not a problem.  We have given them enough releases that will
work with the new driver.

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