Re: Parallel Aggregate

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 3:00 PM, David Rowley
<david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 17 February 2016 at 17:50, Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here I attached a draft patch based on previous discussions. It still needs
>> better comments and optimization.
>
> Over in [1] Tom posted a large change to the grouping planner which
> causes large conflict with the parallel aggregation patch. I've been
> looking over Tom's patch and reading the related thread and I've
> observed 3 things:
>
> 1. Parallel Aggregate will be much easier to write and less code to
> base it up top of Tom's upper planner changes. The latest patch does
> add a bit of cruft (e.g create_gather_plan_from_subplan()) which won't
> be required after Tom pushes the changes to the upper planner.
> 2. If we apply parallel aggregate before Tom's upper planner changes
> go in, then Tom needs to reinvent it again when rebasing his patch.
> This seems senseless, so this is why I did this work.
> 3. Based on the thread, most people are leaning towards getting Tom's
> changes in early to allow a bit more settle time before beta, and
> perhaps also to allow other patches to go in after (e.g this)
>
> So, I've done a bit of work and I've rewritten the parallel aggregate
> code to base it on top of Tom's patch posted in [1]. There's a few
> things that are left unsolved at this stage.
>
> 1. exprType() for Aggref still returns the aggtype, where it needs to
> return the trans type for partial agg nodes, this need to return the
> trans type rather than the aggtype. I had thought I might fix this by
> adding a proxy node type that sits in the targetlist until setrefs.c
> where it can be plucked out and replaced by the Aggref. I need to
> investigate this further.
> 2. There's an outstanding bug relating to HAVING clause not seeing the
> right state of aggregation and returning wrong results. I've not had
> much time to look into this yet, but I suspect its an existing bug
> that's already in master from my combine aggregate patch. I will
> investigate this on Sunday.
>

Thanks for updating the patch. Here I attached updated patch
with the additional changes,

1. Now parallel aggregation works with expressions along with aggregate
functions also.
2. Aggref return the trans type instead of agg type, this change adds
the support of parallel aggregate to float aggregates, still it needs a
fix in _equalAggref function.

Pending:
1. Explain plan needs to be corrected for parallel grouping similar like
parallel aggregate.

To apply this patch, first apply the patch in [1]

[1] - http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/14172.1457228315@sss.pgh.pa.us

Regards,
Hari Babu
Fujitsu Australia