clintropolis commented on a change in pull request #9638:
URL: https://github.com/apache/druid/pull/9638#discussion_r472486283



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File path: 
processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/query/aggregation/AggregatorFactory.java
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@@ -210,22 +212,36 @@ public AggregatorFactory 
getMergingFactory(AggregatorFactory other) throws Aggre
   public abstract List<String> requiredFields();
 
   /**
-   * Get the type name of the intermediate type for this aggregator. This is 
the same as the type returned by
+   * Get the "intermediate" {@link ValueType} for this aggregator. This is the 
same as the type returned by
    * {@link #deserialize} and the type accepted by {@link #combine}. However, 
it is *not* necessarily the same type
    * returned by {@link #finalizeComputation}.
+   */
+  public abstract ValueType getType();
+
+  /**
+   * Get the type for the final form of this this aggregator, i.e. the type of 
the value returned by
+   * {@link #finalizeComputation}. This may be the same as or different than 
the types expected in {@link #deserialize}
+   * and {@link #combine}.
+   * @return
+   */
+  public ValueType getFinalizedType()
+  {
+    return getType();

Review comment:
       changed to abstract




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