MySQL Reference Manual

MySQL and the Future (the TODO)

This appendix lists the features that we plan to implement in MySQL server.

Everything in this list is approximately in the order it will be done. If you want to affect the priority order, please register a license or support us and tell us what you want to have done more quickly. See Section 1.4.

The plan is that we in the future will support the full ANSI SQL99 standard, but with a lot of useful extensions. The challenge is to do this without sacrifying the speed or compromising the code.

Things That Should Be in 4.0

We are now in the final stages of the development of the MySQL server 4.0. server. The target is to quickly implement the rest of the following features and then shift development to MySQL server 4.1. See Section 1.5.

The news section for 4.0 includes a list of the features we have already implemented in the 4.0 tree. See http://www.mysql.com/doc/N/e/News-4.0.x.html.

This section lists features not yet implemented in the current version of MySQL server 4.0, which will, however, be implemented in later versions of MySQL 4.0. This being very volatile information, please consider this list valid only if you are reading it from the MySQL web site (http://www.mysql.com/).

• Allow users to change startup options without taking down the server.

• Better command-line argument handling.

• New key cache, which will give better performance when using many threads.

• New table definition file format (.frm files). This will enable us to not run out of bits when ...