Re: WITHIN GROUP patch

From: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)dalibo(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: WITHIN GROUP patch
Date: 2014-01-08 00:16:27
Message-ID: 87wqibxs01.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

>> Furthermore, I can't help noticing that the increased complexity
>> has now pretty much negated your original arguments for moving so
>> much of the work out of nodeAgg.c.

Tom> The key reason for that was, and remains, not having the
Tom> behavior hard-wired in nodeAgg; I believe that this design
Tom> permits things to be accomplished in aggregate implementation
Tom> functions that would not have been possible with the original
Tom> patch. I'm willing to accept some code growth to have that
Tom> flexibility.

Do you have an actual use case?

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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)

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