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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2005-03-12 20:25:06 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2005-03-12 20:25:06 +0000
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Adjust the API for aggregate function calls so that a C-coded function
can tell whether it is being used as an aggregate or not. This allows such a function to avoid re-pallocing a pass-by-reference transition value; normally it would be unsafe for a function to scribble on an input, but in the aggregate case it's safe to reuse the old transition value. Make int8inc() do this. This gets a useful improvement in the speed of COUNT(*), at least on narrow tables (it seems to be swamped by I/O when the table rows are wide). Per a discussion in early December with Neil Conway. I also fixed int_aggregate.c to check this, thereby turning it into something approaching a supportable technique instead of being a crude hack.
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