Re: Parallel Aggregates for string_agg and array_agg

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Parallel Aggregates for string_agg and array_agg
Date: 2018-05-01 21:11:47
Message-ID: 20180501211147.3balprbggw3pdpxk@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2018-05-01 14:09:39 -0700, Mark Dilger wrote:
> I don't care which order the data is in, as long as x[i] and y[i] are
> matched correctly. It sounds like this patch would force me to write
> that as, for example:
>
> select array_agg(a order by a, b) AS x, array_agg(b order by a, b) AS y
> from generate_a_b_func(foo);
>
> which I did not need to do before.

Why would it require that? Rows are still processed row-by-row even if
there's parallelism, no?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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