Matthias Schmidt wrote: > > Am 07.12.2004 um 19:24 schrieb Tom Lane: > > > Matthias Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> By the way: Do you have an idea about a small or > >> medium sized task from the TODO-List for a newbee, which gets me up to > >> speed?(!Win32) > > > > A lot of the tasks listed under DATA TYPES are fairly self-contained > > problems ... but what draws your interest? I think most of the tasks > > that are on TODO are there either because they're hard problems, or > > because nobody was very interested in them. Unfortunately they are not > > marked as to which is which :-(. Make a list of things you find > > interesting, and we can tell you if they're very hard or already > > claimed. > > > > regards, tom lane > > > > > > Hi Tom, > > this is a list of things I'm interested in: > > 1) Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions > > Right now, SIGTERM will terminate a session, but it is treated as > though the postmaster has paniced and shared memory might not be > cleaned up properly. A new signal is needed for safe termination.
This one seems hard. > 2) Add a function that returns the 'uptime' of the postmaster Seems like a good starting point. > 3) Have SHOW ALL and pg_settings show descriptions for server-side > variables Also a good one for you. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
