Re: Partial aggregates pushdown

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Fujii(dot)Yuki(at)df(dot)MitsubishiElectric(dot)co(dot)jp" <Fujii(dot)Yuki(at)df(dot)mitsubishielectric(dot)co(dot)jp>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Alexander Pyhalov <a(dot)pyhalov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Ilya Gladyshev <i(dot)gladyshev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: Partial aggregates pushdown
Date: 2023-04-08 02:53:53
Message-ID: ZDDXQbPxdNU63i0S@momjian.us
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On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 10:44:09PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 09:55:00PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Uh, what? Why would we not be able to tell from the remote server's
> >> version number whether it has this ability?
>
> > The issue is not a mismatch of postgres_fdw versions but the extension
> > versions and whether the partial aggregate functions exist on the remote
> > side, e.g., something like a PostGIS upgrade.
>
> postgres_fdw has no business pushing down calls to non-builtin functions
> unless the user has explicitly authorized that via the existing
> whitelisting mechanism. I think you're reinventing the wheel,
> and not very well.

The patch has you assign an option at CREATE AGGREGATE time if it can do
push down, and postgres_fdw checks that. What whitelisting mechanism
are you talking about? async_capable?

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