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author | Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> | 2020-07-28 16:58:59 -0700 |
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committer | Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> | 2020-07-28 16:58:59 -0700 |
commit | e362f469c50f6e671285640cc2087345ab55a9b2 (patch) | |
tree | b84fdaa6af9ab1c801e8bbe1845401e317f62719 | |
parent | a57c837e5cdf601d6ec05e5e10a40d01f1d2b84e (diff) | |
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Doc: Remove obsolete CREATE AGGREGATE note.
The planner is in fact willing to use hash aggregation when work_mem is
not set high enough for everything to fit in memory. This has been the
case since commit 1f39bce0, which added disk-based hash aggregation.
There are a few remaining cases in which hash aggregation is avoided as
a matter of policy when the planner surmises that spilling will be
necessary. For example, callers of choose_hashed_setop() still
conservatively avoid hash aggregation when spilling is anticipated.
That doesn't seem like a good enough reason to mention hash aggregation
in this context.
Backpatch: 13-, where disk-based hash aggregation was introduced.
-rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/create_aggregate.sgml | 5 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_aggregate.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_aggregate.sgml index 811e288ec1e..a315fff8bd3 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_aggregate.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_aggregate.sgml @@ -386,10 +386,7 @@ SELECT col FROM tab ORDER BY col USING sortop LIMIT 1; If this parameter is omitted or is zero, a default estimate is used based on the <replaceable>state_data_type</replaceable>. The planner uses this value to estimate the memory required for a - grouped aggregate query. The planner will consider using hash - aggregation for such a query only if the hash table is estimated to fit - in <xref linkend="guc-work-mem"/>; therefore, large values of this - parameter discourage use of hash aggregation. + grouped aggregate query. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |