Re: Help on some concepts - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Help on some concepts
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In response to Re: Help on some concepts  ("Shridhar Daithankar" <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in>)
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> > - "hash aggregation in memory": I know what's a hash, but what kind of
> > hash is being aggregated and how is it different from what was done
> > before?

No, the hash table is being used to evaluate an aggregate SQL function.
This is a lot faster than using the old linked list method.

Chris


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