Re: Partial Mode in Aggregate Functions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marcos Pegoraro
Subject Re: Partial Mode in Aggregate Functions
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Msg-id CAB-JLwZwNriqAFfvhqDeP9Eyvp+MiKB2CfU21_EZ=gCce05bPg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Partial Mode in Aggregate Functions  (David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>)
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Em qui., 26 de fev. de 2026 às 01:57, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> escreveu:
As for the proposed patch, I'm strongly against it. If people are
confused about what partial aggregation is, then let's modify the
documentation to explain what it means.
Well, I started this because the way it's written is confusing, so much so that I showed a link [1] from someone who speaks English better than me saying that PARTIAL is FILTER.
And from the user point of view, who is reading just that page, partial means incomplete, a subset of, etc. So I think it's easy for the reader to misunderstand. Whether Parallel Mode is the best term to use here, I don't know, but I'm convinced that the way it is written is easy to confuse.


regards
Marcos

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