Re: Avg performance for int8/numeric

From: Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "eng(at)intranet(dot)greenplum(dot)com" <eng(at)intranet(dot)greenplum(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Avg performance for int8/numeric
Date: 2006-11-25 00:28:28
Message-ID: 45678E2C.4040403@paradise.net.nz
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 11:08 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>> - Modifies do_numeric_accum to have an extra bool parameter and does not
>> calc sumX2 when it is false.
>
> I think it would be clearer to reorganize this function slightly, and
> have only a single branch on "useSumX2". On first glance it isn't
> obviously that transdatums[2] is defined (but unchanged) when useSumX2
> is false.
>

Right - new patch attached that adds a new function do_numeric_avg_accum
that only uses N and sum(X). This means I could amend the avg aggregates
for numeric, int8 to have a initvalues of {0,0}.

Cheers

Mark

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