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[Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Eduardo!

grep for create_group_by
in sql/ and particularly in storage/

On Aug 04, Berrocal, Eduardo wrote:
> Hello!,
> Continuing in my series of emails about engine condition pushdown... I
> wonder if it is possible to push down aggregation functions such as
> SUM(), MIN(), MAX() or AVG() to the storage engine. Currently, and as
> far as I can see (I may be wrong here), it is not possible. However,
> this is something that can be beneficial if the storage engine can
> perform some of these basic computations itself, like suming over a
> whole column and returning just the result. The storage engine can
> even be smart enough to use some hardware advantages like accelerators
> or computational storage.
> 
> If you guys think this is indeed possible without drastic code
> changes, it would be amazing to be pointed at where this is. At first,
> I would only push down functions if they operate over just one column
> of the same table. Things can be made more complicated in the future,
> of course.

Regards,
Sergei
VP of MariaDB Server Engineering
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