r9360: Strings as table identifiers in SELECT.

[clsql.git] / TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 07c9c78d6849f9009c7894ccad2237447295717d..8f59a616bc99d3ccd16fd63dd861cad6c5bbb15c 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -7,14 +7,12 @@ TESTS TO ADD
 * Test bigint type
 * :db-constraint tests
 * test *db-auto-sync* 
-* test :retrieval :deferred joins
+* test SELECT caching
+* for-each-row macro
+* universal-time 
 
 COMMONSQL SPEC
 
-* Missing: 
-
-  UPDATE-OBJECT-JOINS 
-
 * Incompatible 
 
  >> The functional sql interface 
@@ -26,22 +24,26 @@ COMMONSQL SPEC
 
       o Complete sql expressions (see operations.lisp)
 
-         substr
-         some 
-         order-by 
-         times 
-         nvl
-         null 
-         distinct
-         except 
-         intersect 
-         between
-         userenv
+         nvl (Oracle specific) 
+         userenv (Oracle specific) 
+        minus (Oracle specific: does the same as EXCEPT) 
 
       o variables (e.g., table identifiers) should be instantiated at runtime 
 
-OPTIMIZATIONS
 
+VARIANCES FROM COMMONSQL
+
+UPDATE-OBJECT-JOINS:
+ Rather than simply reading the values for each
+ object, to meet CommonSQL spec need to generate a single
+ query to read values for all objects, up to max-len count.
+
+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. 
+
+OPTIMIZATIONS
+ 
 * Revisit result-type list creation,perhaps caching
 
 POSSIBLE EXTENSIONS
@@ -58,7 +60,9 @@ 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.