Speed up SUM calculation in numeric aggregates.
This introduces a numeric sum accumulator, which performs better than
repeatedly calling add_var(). The performance comes from using wider digits
and delaying carry propagation, tallying positive and negative values
separately, and avoiding a round of palloc/pfree on every value. This
speeds up SUM(), as well as other standard aggregates like AVG() and
STDDEV() that also calculate a sum internally.
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin
Discussion: <c0545351-a467-5b76-6d46-4840d1ea8aa4@iki.fi>
Branch
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master
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9cca11c915e458323d0e746c68203f2c11da0302
Modified Files
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src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c | 601 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
src/test/regress/expected/numeric.out | 16 +
src/test/regress/sql/numeric.sql | 8 +
3 files changed, 522 insertions(+), 103 deletions(-)
