Re: Partial Mode in Aggregate Functions

On 2/27/26 5:34 AM, David Rowley wrote:
> I'll stand by what I said earlier, that if people don't know what
> partial aggregation is that we should aim to better explain what it
> is. Renaming it won't magically inform people what it is and will
> likely just confuse all the people who already know what it is. I
> think you're about 10 years too late to bikeshed names for this.

+1

There is nothing wrong with calling them partial aggregates. No name is 
likely to never confuse anyone and I do not see any big issue with 
partial in particular. Both parallel and batch, as suggested in this 
thread, would be worse.

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Andreas Karlsson
Percona