Re: Combining Aggregates

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Kouhei Kaigai <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Combining Aggregates
Date: 2016-01-20 12:44:42
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZPVDet6wvLoEmM4FrMzkEYdMiBjqf9UssFCEBeYe22Qg@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 7:38 AM, David Rowley
<david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> To my mind, priority #1 ought to be putting this fine new
>> functionality to some use. Expanding it to every aggregate we've got
>> seems like a distinctly second priority. That's not to say that it's
>> absolutely gotta go down that way, but those would be my priorities.
>
> Agreed. So I've attached a version of the patch which does not have any of
> the serialise/deserialise stuff in it.
>
> I've also attached a test patch which modifies the grouping planner to add a
> Partial Aggregate node, and a final aggregate node when it's possible.
> Running the regression tests with this patch only shows up variances in the
> EXPLAIN outputs, which is of course expected.

That seems great as a test, but what's the first patch that can put
this to real and permanent use?

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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