We have a Postgres 13 open item for Disk-based hash aggregate, which
is the only non-trivial open item. There is a general concern about
how often we get disk-based hash aggregation when work_mem is
particularly low, and recursion seems unavoidable. This is generally
thought to be a problem in the costing.
Tomas Vondra did some testing of the patch which led to discussion of
this on the hash agg GUC megathread, here:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20200724012248.y77rpqc73agrsvb3@development
I am starting this new thread to deal with the open item.
Any progress on this, Jeff? Please correct or expand on my summary of
the open item if I got something wrong.
Thanks
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Peter Geoghegan
