Re: proposal: tuplestore, tuplesort aggregate functions

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: proposal: tuplestore, tuplesort aggregate functions
Date: 2010-08-19 10:45:13
Message-ID: AANLkTi=FJ17paSL=azJ=DJuWBNLyppFrsjGWX77813zZ@mail.gmail.com
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Hello

>
> I'll test both variant first. Maybe there are not any significant
> difference between them. Now nodeAgg can build, fill a tuplesort. So I
> think is natural use it. It needs only one - skip a calling a
> transident function and directly call final function with external
> tuplesort. Minimally you don't need 2x same code.

yesterday I did a small test. Aggregates without transident functions
are only about 2% faster, so there has no sense thinking more about
them. I'll send a patch with median and percentile functions
immediately - these functions are implemented like usual aggregates.

Regards

Pavel

>
> Regards
>
> Pavel Stehule
>
>>                        regards, tom lane
>>
>

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