On 17 December 2014 at 10:20, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17 December 2014 at 22:53, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >> >> KaiGai, David Rowley and myself have all made mention of various ways >> we could optimize aggregates. >> >> Following WIP patch adds an extra function called a "combining >> function", that is intended to allow the user to specify a >> semantically correct way of breaking down an aggregate into multiple >> steps. >> >> Gents, is this what you were thinking? If not... >> > > Very much so! You must have missed my patch. > > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAApHDvrZG5Q9rNxU4WOga8AgvAwQ83bF83CFvMbOQcCg8vk=Zw@mail.gmail.com
Very strange that you should post an otherwise unrelated patch on someone else's thread AND not add the patch to the CommitFest.
Stealth patch submission is a new one on me.
Apologies about that, It was a bad decision.
I had thought that it's a bit of a chicken and the egg problem... This is the egg, we just need a chicken to come and lay it.
I had imagined that it would be weird to commit something that's dead in code and not all that testable until someone adds some other code to utilise it.