Re: Introduce Index Aggregate - new GROUP BY strategy

Sergey Soloviev <sergey.soloviev@tantorlabs.ru>

From: Sergey Soloviev <sergey.soloviev@tantorlabs.ru>
To: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-12-12T16:23:15Z
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Hi!

I have finally added support for Partial IndexAggregate. There was a problem with
sortgroupref and target list entries mismatch due to partial aggregates in it.
To solve this I had to add new argument to 'create_agg_path' - 'pathkeys' which is
a List of PathKey.

Previously this information was calculated in the function just like AGG_SORTED
do this. But when we calculating pathkeys we must consider whether it is a child
rel to properly build pathkeys and if so use it's parent. The latter information is
not known inside 'create_agg_path', thus instead of passing 'parent' we explicitly
pass already built 'pathkeys'. I did not change AGG_SORTED logic, so this  is used
only by AGG_INDEX.

This logic is placed in another patch file just to make review of this change easier.

Also, cost calculation logic is adjusted a bit - it takes into account top-down index
traversal and final external merge cost is added only if spill expected.

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Sergey Soloviev
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