Re: Parallel Aggregates for string_agg and array_agg

From: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Parallel Aggregates for string_agg and array_agg
Date: 2018-03-31 14:42:12
Message-ID: CAKJS1f9jP_b=yoLa5bt9WPC5mtNgMKFgP6FH2ejZ_PqYyxbDAQ@mail.gmail.com
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On 30 March 2018 at 02:55, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 03/29/2018 03:09 PM, David Rowley wrote:
>> I meant to mention earlier that I coded
>> agg_args_have_sendreceive_funcs() to only check for send/receive
>> functions. Really we could allow a byval types without send/receive
>> functions, since the serial/deserial just send the raw datums in that
>> case, but then the function becomes
>> agg_byref_args_have_sendreceive_funcs(), which seemed a bit obscure,
>> so I didn't do that. Maybe I should?
>
> I'd do that. Not sure the function name needs to change, but perhaps
> agg_args_support_sendreceive() would be better - it covers both byref
> types (which require send/receive functions) and byval (which don't).

The attached patch implements this.

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David Rowley http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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combinefn_for_string_and_array_aggs_v10.patch application/octet-stream 45.3 KB

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