On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Andrew Gierth
<andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk> wrote:
> Tom> The other reason that's a bad comparison is that I've not seen
> Tom> many queries that use more than a couple of window frames,
> Tom> whereas we have to expect that the number of grouping sets in
> Tom> typical queries will be significantly more than "a couple".
>
> I would be interested in seeing more good examples of the size and
> type of grouping sets used in typical queries.
From what I have seen, there is interest in being able to do things
like GROUP BY CUBE(a, b, c, d) and have that be efficient. That will
require 16 different groupings, and we really want to minimize the
number of times we have to re-sort to get all of those done. For
example, if we start by sorting on (a, b, c, d), we want to then make
a single pass over the data computing the aggregates with (a, b, c,
d), (a, b, c), (a, b), (a), and () as the grouping columns.
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