+GENERAL
+* port Oracle backend to UFFI.
+TESTS TO ADD
+
+* CACHE-TABLE-QUERIES
+* :VOID-VALUE
+* :db-kind :key adds an index for that key, complicated by different
+ backends show autogenerated primary key in different ways.
+* New universal and bigint types, add tests for other types
+
+COMMONSQL SPEC
+
+* Missing:
+
+ UPDATE-OBJECT-JOINS
+
+* Incompatible
+
+ >> The functional sql interface
+
+ SELECT
+ o keyword arg :refresh should function as advertised
+ o should return (values result-list field-names)
+ o should coerce values returned as strings to appropriate lisp type
+
+ QUERY
+ o should coerce values returned as strings to appropriate lisp type
+ for SQLite backend
+
+ >> The object-oriented sql interface
+
+ DEF-VIEW-CLASS
+ o get :target-slot working
+ o implement :retrieval :immediate
+
+ DO-QUERY,MAP-QUERY,LOOP
+ o should work with object queries as well as functional ones
+
+
+ >> 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
+
+
+
+NOTES ABOUT THE BACKENDS
+
+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
+
+SQLITE
+
+create-view: column-list parameter not supported