On 2017-06-06 12:23:49 -0700, David Fetter wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 01:52:45PM -0400, Regina Obe wrote: > > It seems CREATE AGGREGATE was expanded in 9.6 to support parallelization of > > aggregate functions using transitions, with the addition of serialfunc and > > deserialfunc to the aggregate definitions. > > > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/sql-createaggregate.html > > > > I was looking at the PostgreSQL 10 source code for some example usages of > > this and was hoping that array_agg and string_agg would support the feature. > > At a cursory glance, it seems they do not use this. > > Examples I see that do support it are the average and standard deviation > > functions. > > > > Is there a reason for this or it just wasn't gotten to?
I'd suggest trying to write a parallel version of them ;). Shouldn't be too hard. > I'd bet on lack of tuits. Anything with text has to deal with > collation issues, etc., that may make this trickier than it first > appears. I don't see how collations makes things more complicated here. - Andres -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
