Re: Aggregate function API versus grouping sets

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Aggregate function API versus grouping sets
Date: 2014-07-02 18:47:04
Message-ID: 18963.1404326824@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk> writes:
> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom> Another approach would be to remove AggGetPerAggEContext as such
> Tom> from the API altogether, and instead offer an interface that
> Tom> says "register an aggregate cleanup callback", leaving it to the
> Tom> agg/window core code to figure out which context to hang that
> Tom> on. I had thought that exposing this econtext and the
> Tom> per-input-tuple one would provide useful generality, but maybe
> Tom> we should rethink that.

> Works for me.

If we're going to do that, I think it needs to be in 9.4. Are you
going to work up a patch?

regards, tom lane

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