On Jan23, 2014, at 17:20 , Tom Lane wrote:
> Florian Pflug writes:
>> Is there a particular reason why the "direct" arguments of ordered-set
>> aggregates are not passed to the transition function too?
>
> Because they have to be evaluated only once.
>
> I did consider evaluating them once at t
Florian Pflug writes:
> Is there a particular reason why the "direct" arguments of ordered-set
> aggregates are not passed to the transition function too?
Because they have to be evaluated only once.
I did consider evaluating them once at the start and saving the values,
but that's a bit problem
Hi,
Is there a particular reason why the "direct" arguments of ordered-set
aggregates are not passed to the transition function too? It seems that
evaluating of some ordered-set aggregates would be much cheaper if we did
that.
For example, dense_rank() would then just need to count the number of
