On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 at 00:44, Marcos Pegoraro <[email protected]> wrote: > > Em qui., 26 de fev. de 2026 às 01:57, David Rowley <[email protected]> > escreveu: >> >> As for the proposed patch, I'm strongly against it. If people are >> confused about what partial aggregation is, then let's modify the >> documentation to explain what it means. > > Well, I started this because the way it's written is confusing, so much so > that I showed a link [1] from someone who speaks English better than me > saying that PARTIAL is FILTER. > And from the user point of view, who is reading just that page, partial means > incomplete, a subset of, etc. So I think it's easy for the reader to > misunderstand. Whether Parallel Mode is the best term to use here, I don't > know, but I'm convinced that the way it is written is easy to confuse.
Does the wording I proposed make it easier to understand why the word "partial" is in the name? > [1] - > https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/partial-aggregation-the-beautiful-way/ I've never heard anyone using "partial" for FILTER before. The blog is from 2015, and partial aggregates got committed in 2016. I hope nobody would use the partial terminology for FILTER today, as we now have something else using that name. David
