gabotechs commented on code in PR #20019:
URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20019#discussion_r2735934863


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datafusion/physical-plan/src/aggregates/mod.rs:
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@@ -144,6 +144,23 @@ pub enum AggregateMode {
     /// This mode requires that the input has more than one partition, and is
     /// partitioned by group key (like FinalPartitioned).
     SinglePartitioned,
+    /// Combine multiple partial aggregations to produce a new partial
+    /// aggregation.
+    ///
+    /// Input is intermediate accumulator state (like Final), but output is
+    /// also intermediate accumulator state (like Partial). This enables
+    /// tree-reduce aggregation strategies where partial results from
+    /// multiple workers are combined in multiple stages before a final
+    /// evaluation.
+    ///
+    /// ```text
+    ///               Final
+    ///            /        \
+    ///     PartialReduce   PartialReduce
+    ///     /         \      /         \
+    ///  Partial   Partial  Partial   Partial
+    /// ```
+    PartialReduce,

Review Comment:
   This is looking really good 👍 I don't think a partial reduce implementation 
can get cleaner than this.
   
   One question: do you think this could be beneficial for single-node 
DataFusion plans at some point? I can imagine how this is useful for 
distributed engine, but do you have any thoughts about single-node usage?
   
   



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