Re: Assembling "top features" list for beta announcement

Darren Duncan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.advocacy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2017-04-08 1:50 AM, Michael Banck wrote:
>> - PGFDW: push down aggregates
>
> As the list is getting rather large, I am not sure this one merits
> inclusion, but I don't how much it improves things, really.

I believe this absolutely merits inclusion in the announcement, though not as a 
top 3 item.

Pushing down aggregates is huge for the scalability and performance of federated 
queries.

If one is for example summarizing a billion remote rows into a dozen rows, this 
change means the GROUP BY and aggregation happens remotely and then only a dozen 
rows are passed over the wire instead of a billion rows.

Next to pushing down projections or restrictions, the aggregate pushdown means 
the difference for a large fraction of common queries to be feasible versus not. 
  It means that say a billion row aggregate takes effectively zero time of the 
client Postgres' resources.

-- Darren Duncan



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