Re: [HACKERS] Partition-wise aggregation/grouping

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jeevan Chalke <jeevan(dot)chalke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar(dot)raghuwanshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Partition-wise aggregation/grouping
Date: 2018-03-08 14:19:18
Message-ID: CA+TgmoY4xHzgBB_dewbC4R+RDHwiEnv-KncVQuJkNuvxKJCDwA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 9:15 AM, Jeevan Chalke
<jeevan(dot)chalke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> I am not sure why we don't set reltarget into the grouped_rel too.
>
> But if we do so like we did in partially_grouped_rel, then it will be lot
> easier for partitionwise aggregate as then we don't have to pass target to
> functions creating paths like create_append_path. We now need to update
> generate_gather_paths() to take target too as it is now being called on
> grouped_rel in which reltarget is not set.
>
> But yes, if there is any specific reason we can't do so, then I think the
> same like Ashutosh Said. I didn't aware of such reason though.

I see no problem with setting reltarget for the grouped_rel. Before
we added partially_grouped_rel, that rel computed paths with two
different targets: partial paths had the partial grouping target, and
non-partial paths had the ordinary grouping target. But that's fixed
now.

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