Thanks Jeff. 2014-05-14 2:19 GMT+08:00 Jeff Janes <jeff.ja...@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Zhe-Wei Jiang <jrreinha...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm new to the open source community, and wanna help in some >> implementation work. >> However, when I looked into the TODO list, I found most of the items are >> very old. >> > > So that is one thing you can do to help, try to improve the todo page! > I've thought we should create a new badge for staleness (in addition to > the Easy and Done ones) and add it to everything currently on the page, > then remove it from ones that were recently evaluated and still seem to be > relevant. > > And in the process, we should clarify why they haven't been done yet. > Often what really needs to be done is not the implementation, but rather > the evaluation of whether it is worth the trade offs involved. > Aren't I too unfamiliar with the postgreSQL project to help on this? I think this should be coordinated by a more experienced contributor. > > >> Therefore, I'd like to know if there is any entry-level implementation >> needed by PostgreSQL now? >> > > Did anything on the todo list strike your fancy, especially anything > marked Easy? Even if it is old, it still might be valid. Then discuss it > here on the hackers list, and if it not still valid we can remove it from > the list. No point putting the sour milk back in the fridge. > > The following two look easies to me: [E] [image: Incomplete item]<http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/File:UntickedTick.svg>Add full object name to the tag field. eg. for operators we need '=(integer, integer)', instead of just '='. [E] [image: Incomplete item]<http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/File:UntickedTick.svg>Modify pg_dump to create skeleton views for reload (which are then updated via CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW) when views have circular dependencies. This should eliminate the need for the CREATE RULE "_RETURN" hack currently used to address this issue. Are they still in need? Besides, for the following: [E] [image: Incomplete item]<http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/File:UntickedTick.svg>Remove warnings created by -Wcast-align I tried to add -Wcast-align in the latest git source but found no warning. Should this be removed from the TODO page? > How much experience do you have using PostgreSQL (or for that matter, > coding in C)? > > Actually I never used PostgreSQL before. I used to run mySQL but also not much experience. I coded C++ for ~10 years and I guess C should not bring too much trouble. > Cheers, > > Jeff > Regards, Zhe-Wei Jiang
