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Support ordered-set (WITHIN GROUP) aggregates.
This patch introduces generic support for ordered-set and hypothetical-set aggregate functions, as well as implementations of the instances defined in SQL:2008 (percentile_cont(), percentile_disc(), rank(), dense_rank(), percent_rank(), cume_dist()). We also added mode() though it is not in the spec, as well as versions of percentile_cont() and percentile_disc() that can compute multiple percentile values in one pass over the data. Unlike the original submission, this patch puts full control of the sorting process in the hands of the aggregate's support functions. To allow the support functions to find out how they're supposed to sort, a new API function AggGetAggref() is added to nodeAgg.c. This allows retrieval of the aggregate call's Aggref node, which may have other uses beyond the immediate need. There is also support for ordered-set aggregates to install cleanup callback functions, so that they can be sure that infrastructure such as tuplesort objects gets cleaned up. In passing, make some fixes in the recently-added support for variadic aggregates, and make some editorial adjustments in the recent FILTER additions for aggregates. Also, simplify use of IsBinaryCoercible() by allowing it to succeed whenever the target type is ANY or ANYELEMENT. It was inconsistent that it dealt with other polymorphic target types but not these. Atri Sharma and Andrew Gierth; reviewed by Pavel Stehule and Vik Fearing, and rather heavily editorialized upon by Tom Lane
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<refsynopsisdiv>
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<synopsis>
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DROP AGGREGATE [ IF EXISTS ]
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<replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable> ( [ <replaceable class="parameter">argmode</replaceable> ] [ <replaceable class="parameter">arg_name</replaceable> ] <replaceable class="parameter">arg_data_type</replaceable> [ , ... ] )
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[ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]
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DROP AGGREGATE [ IF EXISTS ] <replaceable>name</replaceable> ( <replaceable>aggregate_signature</replaceable> ) [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]
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<phrase>where <replaceable>aggregate_signature</replaceable> is:</phrase>
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* |
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[ <replaceable>argmode</replaceable> ] [ <replaceable>argname</replaceable> ] <replaceable>argtype</replaceable> [ , ... ] |
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[ [ <replaceable>argmode</replaceable> ] [ <replaceable>argname</replaceable> ] <replaceable>argtype</replaceable> [ , ... ] ] ORDER BY [ <replaceable>argmode</replaceable> ] [ <replaceable>argname</replaceable> ] <replaceable>argtype</replaceable> [ , ... ]
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</synopsis>
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</refsynopsisdiv>
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@@ -73,7 +77,7 @@ DROP AGGREGATE [ IF EXISTS ]
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><replaceable class="parameter">arg_name</replaceable></term>
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<term><replaceable class="parameter">argname</replaceable></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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@@ -86,12 +90,15 @@ DROP AGGREGATE [ IF EXISTS ]
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><replaceable class="parameter">arg_data_type</replaceable></term>
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<term><replaceable class="parameter">argtype</replaceable></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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An input data type on which the aggregate function operates.
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To reference a zero-argument aggregate function, write <literal>*</>
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in place of the list of argument specifications.
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To reference an ordered-set aggregate function, write
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<literal>ORDER BY</> between the direct and aggregated argument
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specifications.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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@@ -117,6 +124,15 @@ DROP AGGREGATE [ IF EXISTS ]
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</variablelist>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Notes</title>
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<para>
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Alternative syntaxes for referencing ordered-set aggregates
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are described under <xref linkend="sql-alteraggregate">.
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Examples</title>
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<type>integer</type>:
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<programlisting>
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DROP AGGREGATE myavg(integer);
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</programlisting></para>
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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<para>
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To remove the hypothetical-set aggregate function <literal>myrank</>,
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which takes an arbitrary list of ordering columns and a matching list
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of direct arguments:
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<programlisting>
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DROP AGGREGATE myrank(VARIADIC "any" ORDER BY VARIADIC "any");
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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