Peter Eisentraut писал 2021-11-01 12:47:
On 21.10.21 12:55, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
Now aggregates with internal states can be pushed down, if they are marked as pushdown safe (this flag is set to true for min/max/sum), have internal states and associated converters. Converters are called locally, they transform aggregate result to serialized internal representation. As converters don't have access to internal aggregate state, partial aggregates like avg() are still not pushable.

It seems to me that the system should be able to determine from the
existing aggregate catalog entry whether an aggregate can be pushed
down.  For example, it could check aggtranstype != internal and
similar.  A separate boolean flag should not be necessary.

Hi.
I think we can't infer this property from existing flags. For example, if I have avg() with bigint[] argtranstype, it doesn't mean we can push down it. We couldn't also decide if partial aggregete is safe to push down based on aggfinalfn presence (for example, it is defined for sum(numeric), but we can push it down.

Or if it
is, the patch should provide some guidance about how an aggregate
function author should set it.

Where should it be provided?

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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
Postgres Professional


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