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Road map Brainstorm

• Grow Ingres in the market
• With each successive release
  • Improve
  • Simplity
  • Cheaper

• Strategy
  • Be nimble
    • Smaller releases more often
    • Push the product
    • Directed at new opportunities
  • Be flexible
  • Be reliable

• table procedures - 9.3 in qa
• Identity columns - 9.3 in qa
• sequence data type - 9.3 in qa
• Like for LOBs - 9.3 in qa
• Regex pattern matcing - 9.3 in qa
• JDBC 4.0 - 9.4 in process
• Long identifiers - 9..4 in process

9.4 Features

• Nulls in unique columns
  • Discussion on feature as a configurable behaviour for migration of MySQL databases to Ingres
• Rollforwarddb to a different name
• Add/drop partition to/from a table
• Make applying statistics an SQL command
• Add a column to a table make it positional - alter table display column order - for example in help table
• Online sysmod
• Silent tm monitor output - data only
• copydb - recreate dependencies
• recognise synonyms in copydb
• ability to see view table dependencies
• Parallel reload
• Ingres STAR
  • Register into normal database readonly?
  • Put functionality back into STAR
• Man pages for command reference
  • i.e. tm, help SQL at an OS level