Re: Aggregates with internal state type? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Markus Schaber
Subject Re: Aggregates with internal state type?
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Msg-id 450875FC.9040907@logix-tt.com
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In response to Re: Aggregates with internal state type?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Aggregates with internal state type?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Aggregates with internal state type?  (Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>)
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Hi, Tom,

Tom Lane wrote:
> Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com> writes:
>> This lead me to the question whether it is possible to use "internal" as
>> state type for an Aggregate whose functions are implemented in C.
> 
> No, because the system has no idea what the representation of an
> "internal" state value might be, and in particular how to copy it.
> The same goes for other pseudotypes.

Ah, I see. So there's no possibility to pass some void* kind of
intermediate data, I have to craft at least a dummy PostgreSQL datatype
for it.

This also solves the question how such things would be cleaned up in
case of an intermediate error.

Thanks,

Markus

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