r9383: rename file for consistency with other backends

[clsql.git] / TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index eaadf078ffe3ef8ba9e3ccda8d70b5f9e4dc8de7..24477fd48776d64faa13124b12c6923e13c67506 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -3,53 +3,32 @@ TESTS TO ADD
 * CACHE-TABLE-QUERIES
 * Test that ":db-kind :key" adds an index for that key. This is complicated by different
   backends showing autogenerated primary key in different ways.
-* Large object testing
 * Test bigint type
 * :db-constraint tests
+* test *db-auto-sync* 
+* for-each-row macro
+* universal-time 
 
-POSSIBLE EXTENSIONS
-
-* port Oracle backend to UFFI
-* large object support 
-* add support for prepared statements
-
-COMMONSQL SPEC
+COMMONSQL INCOMPATIBILITY
 
-* Missing: 
+   o Condition names/accessors
+   o userenv (Oracle specific but deprecated in Oracle 9) 
 
-  UPDATE-OBJECT-JOINS 
+VARIANCES FROM COMMONSQL
 
-* Incompatible 
+COMMIT,ROLLBACK,START-TRANSACTION: 
+ When COMMIT or ROLLBACK are called outside of WITH-TRANSACTION, an sql 
+ transaction must be explicitly started first with START-TRANSACTION. 
 
- >> The functional sql interface 
-  
-    SELECT 
-      o keyword arg :refresh should function as advertised 
+OPTIMIZATIONS
  
- >> The object-oriented sql interface
-
-    DEF-VIEW-CLASS
-      o get :target-slot working 
-      o implement :retrieval :immediate 
+* Revisit result-type list creation, perhaps caching
 
- >> Symbolic SQL syntax 
-
-      o Complete sql expressions (see operations.lisp)
-
-         substr
-         some 
-         order-by 
-         times 
-         nvl
-         null 
-         distinct
-         except 
-         intersect 
-         between
-         userenv
-
-      o variables (e.g., table identifiers) should be instantiated at runtime 
+POSSIBLE EXTENSIONS
 
+* extend large object support to databases beyond postgresql, improve large object api
+* add support for prepared statements
+* port Oracle backend to UFFI
 
 
 NOTES ABOUT THE BACKENDS
@@ -59,7 +38,9 @@ MYSQL
 drop-index:   requires a table to be specified with the :from keyword parameter
 views:        mysql does not support views  
 queries:      nested subqueries are not supported
+syntax:       doesn't support the sql concatenation operator (||). 
 
 SQLITE 
 
-create-view: column-list parameter not supported 
+create-view:  column-list parameter not supported 
+syntax:       doesn't support the sql SUBSTRING operator.