Re: Partial Mode in Aggregate Functions

From: Marcos Pegoraro <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Partial Mode in Aggregate Functions
Date: 2026-02-26 11:43:59
Message-ID: CAB-JLwZwNriqAFfvhqDeP9Eyvp+MiKB2CfU21_EZ=gCce05bPg@mail.gmail.com
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Em qui., 26 de fev. de 2026 às 01:57, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
escreveu:

> As for the proposed patch, I'm strongly against it. If people are
> confused about what partial aggregation is, then let's modify the
> documentation to explain what it means.
>
Well, I started this because the way it's written is confusing, so much so
that I showed a link [1] from someone who speaks English better than me
saying that PARTIAL is FILTER.
And from the user point of view, who is reading just that page, partial
means incomplete, a subset of, etc. So I think it's easy for the reader to
misunderstand. Whether Parallel Mode is the best term to use here, I don't
know, but I'm convinced that the way it is written is easy to confuse.

[1] -
https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/partial-aggregation-the-beautiful-way/

regards
Marcos

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