On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:09 PM, David Rowley
<david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 5 April 2016 at 11:59, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> One of my EDB colleagues, while in the process of refactoring some
>> unrelated Advanced Server code, discovered that (1) there's no way to
>> mark an aggregate as anything other than parallel-unsafe but (2) it
>> doesn't matter because has_parallel_hazard ignores Aggrefs anyway.
>> These mistakes cancel each other out (sorta) if all of your aggregates
>> happen to be parallel-safe, but otherwise not so much. Barring
>> objections, I intend to speedily apply the attached patch to fix this.
>
> Thanks for working on this. I should have noticed this myself...
>
> I had a quick look at this and I manged to make this happen;
>
> david=# create aggregate mysum(int) (sfunc=int4pl, combinefunc=int4pl,
> stype=int, parallel);
> server closed the connection unexpectedly
>
> I've attached a fix, which makes the code a bit more simple, and also
> inline with the other code in DefineAggregate().
Thanks.
> I think there was also a couple of missing syntax synopsis in the docs
> too. I've added those.
The first one was indeed needed, but the second syntax doesn't
actually work, so I took that back out.
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