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Tom Lane authored
Gen_fmgrtab.pl treated aggregate functions the same as other built-in functions, which is wasteful because there is no real need to have entries for them in the fmgr_builtins[] table. Suppressing those entries saves about 3KB in the compiled table on my machine; which is not a lot but it's not nothing either, considering that that table is pretty "hot". The only outside code change needed is that ExecInitWindowAgg() can't be allowed to call fmgr_info_cxt() on a plain aggregate function. But that saves a few cycles anyway. Having done that, the aggregate_dummy() function is unreferenced and might as well be dropped. Using "aggregate_dummy" as the prosrc value for an aggregate is now just a documentation convention not something that matters. There was some discussion of using NULL instead to save a few bytes in pg_proc, but we'd have to remove prosrc's BKI_FORCE_NOT_NULL marking which doesn't seem a great idea. Anyway, it's possible there's client-side code that expects to see "aggregate_dummy" there, so I'm loath to change it without a strong reason. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/533989.1604263665@sss.pgh.pa.us
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