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- TO BE DONE LIST
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- last modified 4/8/93
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- Priorities: ** high * medium - low
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- I. DATABASE
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- 1. B-tree maintenacne
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- * impl deferred INDEX updates (in progress)
- * fix bug in PREV re missing down-ptrs
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- - impl fix for insert-screw-case (flag in root or wherever it was)
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- 2. I/O
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- * implement and test random page replacement?
- - impl parent/PREV caching??
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- 3. Concurrency
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- - assure enough FLC blocks for freelist splits in concurrent situation.
- (there seems to be a class of problems about concurrent free-list
- operations: a flush can fail if it causes a split and all the
- free blocks have been used meanwhile; simultaneous flush and fills;
- and the like. One good idea: since its ok if parent-updates fail,
- we can reduce the number of blocks a split can REQUIRE to 1 leaf
- block, rahter than logN blocks.)
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- 4. Error handling
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- - finish impl of error-handling protocol??
- - error log
- - recode error msg calls to take less (code) space
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- 5. Misc
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- * count SCAN does not need to copy value strings (since block is copied).
- * Jonathan wants the ability to create a seg that need not be kept
- valid on disk -- one that can just be rebuilt if the system crashes.
- This means (a) a WCB bit in HANDLEs to control "essential" updates
- and (b) an arg to OPEN-SEG specifying SAFETY (it isnt valid to
- specify this option on a per-handle basis)
- * Jonathan wants to replace FLUSH-SOME-BUKS with a call that scans
- ENT-TAB for a flushable ENT and another call to (carefully) flush it.
- - reduce number of arguments to scan using packets?
- - create memory-resident segment.
- - see if packets can be replaced with multiple values.
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- II. DESIGN/DOCUMENTATION
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- ** spell check
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- - document format of data file (bloks 0,1,2)
- - document type S blocks.
- - write up thoughts on error-info protocol
- - write up WRITE order for blk splits
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- - read papers (SAGIV, WANG, TRANSACTION book) to see how THEY ahndle
- the difficult problems of delayed update and their ordering, and
- the 2-block mod problem for DELETE.
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