David Rowley 3226f47282 Add enable_presorted_aggregate GUC ... 1349d279 added query planner support to allow more efficient execution of aggregate functions which have an ORDER BY or a DISTINCT clause. Prior to that commit, the planner would only request that the lower planner produce a plan with the order required for the GROUP BY clause and it would be left up to nodeAgg.c to perform the final sort of records within each group so that the aggregate transition functions were called in the correct order. Now that the planner requests the lower planner produce a plan with the GROUP BY and the ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregates in mind, there is the possibility that the planner chooses a plan which could be less efficient than what would have been produced before 1349d279. While developing 1349d279, I had in mind that Incremental Sort would help us in cases where an index exists only on the GROUP BY column(s). Incremental Sort would just replace the implicit tuplesorts which are being performed in nodeAgg.c. However, because the planner has the flexibility to instead choose a plan which just performs a full sort on both the GROUP BY and ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregate columns, there is potential for the planner to make a bad choice. The costing for Incremental Sort is not perfect as it assumes an even distribution of rows to sort within each sort group. Here we add an escape hatch in the form of the enable_presorted_aggregate GUC. This will allow users to get the pre-PG16 behavior in cases where they have no other means to convince the query planner to produce a plan which only sorts on the GROUP BY column(s). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvr1Sm+g9hbv4REOVuvQKeDWXcKUAhmbK5K+dfun0s9CvA@mail.gmail.com		2022-12-20 22:28:58 +13:00
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src	Add enable_presorted_aggregate GUC	2022-12-20 22:28:58 +13:00
KNOWN_BUGS	Remove extra newlines at end and beginning of files, add missing newlines	2010-08-19 05:57:36 +00:00
Makefile	Remove maintainer-check target, fold into normal build	2013-10-10 20:11:56 -04:00
MISSING_FEATURES	Remove extra newlines at end and beginning of files, add missing newlines	2010-08-19 05:57:36 +00:00
TODO	Change documentation references to PG website to use https: not http:	2017-05-20 21:50:47 -04:00