Re: parallel distinct union and aggregate support patch

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 5:08 AM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Interesting idea. So IIUC, whenever a worker is scanning the tuple it
> will directly put it into the respective batch(shared tuple store),
> based on the hash on grouping column and once all the workers are
> doing preparing the batch then each worker will pick those baches one
> by one, perform sort and finish the aggregation. I think there is a
> scope of improvement that instead of directly putting the tuple to the
> batch what if the worker does the partial aggregations and then it
> places the partially aggregated rows in the shared tuple store based
> on the hash value and then the worker can pick the batch by batch. By
> doing this way, we can avoid doing large sorts. And then this
> approach can also be used with the hash aggregate, I mean the
> partially aggregated data by the hash aggregate can be put into the
> respective batch.

I am not sure if this would be a win if the typical group size is
small and the transition state has to be serialized/deserialized.
Possibly we need multiple strategies, but I guess we'd have to test
performance to be sure.

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