Open 7.3 items

There has been a lot of activity on open items in the past week.  Here
is the updated list.

Basically, upgrading and casting have blown up into a variety of items.

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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?
Fix BeOS, QNX4 ports
Fix AIX large file compile failure of 2002-09-11 (Andreas)
Get bison upgrade on postgresql.org for ecpg only (Marc)
Allow ecpg to properly handle PREPARE/EXECUTE (Michael)
Fix vacuum btree bug (Tom)
Fix client apps for autocommit = off
Fix clusterdb to be schema-aware
Change log_min_error_statement to be off by default (Gavin)
Fix return tuple counts/oid/tag for rules
Loading 7.2 pg_dumpsfix up function return types on lang/type/trigger creation or  loosen opaque restrictionsfunctions
nolonger public executablelanguages no longer public usable
 
Add schema dump option to pg_dump
Add casts: (Tom)assignment-level cast specificationinet -> textmacaddr -> textint4 -> varchar?int8 -> varchar?add param
forlength check for char()/varchar()
 
Create script to make proper dependencies for SERIAL and foreign keys (Rod)
Fix $libdir in loaded functions?
On Going
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Point-in-time recovery
Win32 port
Security audit

Documentation Changes
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Document need to add permissions to loaded functions and languages
Move documation to gborg for moved projects

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