Minor: improve documentation of AggregateMode
#14946
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Which issue does this PR close?
Rationale for this change
I have always found
AggregateMode
to be somewhat confusing -- I think theSingle
vsSinglePartitioned
specifically is confusing as there is both how many aggregation layers as well as how many partitioned@berkaysynnada has pointed out the key difference here https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/14919/files#r1975931108 and I wanted to capture that in the documentation
What changes are included in this PR?
Update the documentation on AggregationMode to make the requirements clearer
Are these changes tested?
By CI
Are there any user-facing changes?
Only documentation