ClickHouse / ClickHouse/clickhouse-go

Support `AggregateFunction` type

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Description

I have a use case where I want to write the quantile sketch serialized data that is compatible with the ClickHouse server. For example, `quantileBFloat16` uses a hash of bfloat16 `using Data = HashMapWithStackMemory;`. It would be very helpful to send the go type `map[uint16]uint64`. In this PR we add the `DDSketch` https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/56342, which has its own binary representation. The sketches data from systems could come pre-aggregated that can be combined on the ClickHouse server to produce the quantile at the query time by merging them.

I would like to work on add support for `AggregateFunction` and `AggregateFunction(quantilesDDSketch ...))` to begin with. I see the go client library internally uses https://github.com/ClickHouse/ch-go. Let me know what you think.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing how the Go client uses ch-go, then compare the ClickHouse AggregateFunction and quantilesDDSketch representations described in the issue. Done means the client can support AggregateFunction values, beginning with quantilesDDSketch, with compatibility for the serialized data described.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
databases
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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