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WindowFuncs such as row_number() don't care if it's called with ROWS UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW or with RANGE UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW. The latter is less efficient as the RANGE option requires that the executor check for peer rows, so using the ROW option instead would cause less overhead. Because RANGE is part of the default frame options for WindowClauses, it means WindowAgg is, by default, working much harder than it needs to for window functions where the ROWS / RANGE option has no effect on the window function's result. On a test query from the discussion thread, a performance improvement of 344% was seen by using ROWS instead of RANGE. Here we add a new support function node type to allow support functions to be called for window functions so that the most optimal version of the frame options can be set. The planner has been adjusted so that the frame options are changed only if all window functions sharing the same window clause agree on what the optimized frame options are. Here we give the ability for row_number(), rank(), dense_rank(), percent_rank(), cume_dist() and ntile() to alter their WindowClause's frameOptions. Reviewed-by: Vik Fearing, Erwin Brandstetter, Zhihong Yu Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGHENJ7LBBszxS+SkWWFVnBmOT2oVsBhDMB1DFrgerCeYa_DyA@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvohAKEtTXxq7Pc-ic2dKT8oZfbRKeEJP64M0B6+S88z+A@mail.gmail.com
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