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Re: Eager aggregation, take 3

Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>

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From: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>, Paul George <p.a.george19@gmail.com>, Andy Fan <zhihuifan1213@163.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>
Date: 2025-09-29T02:09:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> wrote:
> Attached is an updated version of the patch with these optimizations
> applied.

FWIW, I plan to do another self-review of this patch soon, with the
goal of assessing whether it's ready to be pushed.  If anyone has any
concerns about any part of the patch or would like to review it, I
would greatly appreciate hearing from you.

- Richard

Commits

  1. Fix eager aggregation for semi/antijoin inner rels

  2. Cover additional errors and corner conditions in repack.c

  3. Fix volatile function evaluation in eager aggregation

  4. Fix collation handling for grouping keys in eager aggregation

  5. Rename apply_at to apply_agg_at for clarity

  6. Fix comment in eager_aggregate.sql

  7. Remove unnecessary include of "utils/fmgroids.h"

  8. Implement Eager Aggregation

  9. Allow negative aggtransspace to indicate unbounded state size

  10. Add macros for looping through a List without a ListCell.

  11. Account for the effect of lossy pages when costing bitmap scans.

  12. Fix a thinko in join_is_legal: when we decide we can implement a semijoin