Re: wip: functions median and percentile

Hello

2010/10/1 Hitoshi Harada <umi(dot)tanuki(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> 2010/9/26 Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> there is updated version - with support of window clause. The limits
>> are work_mem for using inside window aggregate or unlimited when it is
>> used as standard query.
>>
>> This patch needs a few work - can share a compare functionality with
>> tuplesort.c, but I would to verify a concept now.
>>
>> Comments?
>
> Sorry for delay. I read the patch and it seems the result is sane. For
> window function calls, I agree that the current tuplesort is not
> enough to implement median functions and the patch introduces its own
> memsort mechanism, although memsort has too much copied from
> tuplesort. It looks to me not so difficult to modify the existing
> tuplesort to guarantee staying in memory always if an option to do so
> is specified from caller. I think that option can be used by other
> cases in the core code.

There are two factors - a) tuplesorts should to uses only memory, b)
data can be sorted again and again. I'll look on possible tuplesort
modifications on weekend.

Pavel

>
> Regards,
>
>
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> Hitoshi Harada
>