Re: Random note of encouragement

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:06:34AM +1100, James Sewell wrote:
>> Now when I run the following SQL (multiple times to allow for getting
>> everything into shared buffers, which is 4GB on my machine):
>>
>>
>>     select sum(count_n) from base group by view_time_day;
>>
>>
>> I get the following results:
>>
>>
>>     PSQL 9.5 - ~21 seconds
>>     PSQL 9.6 devel - ~8.5 seconds
>>
>>
>> I think that's pretty good!
>>
>> I know this is a devel release, things may change, blah blah. But still,
>> something has changed for the better here!
>
> Wow, that is cool.  Can anyone suggest which commit improved this?

Since it sums numerics, maybe integer transition functions from commit
959277a4f579da5243968c750069570a58e92b38 helped?

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