What's New in beta-20160526

May 26, 2016

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Numeric literals containing a decimal point are now treated as type DECIMAL instead of type FLOAT, unless type inference determines that FLOAT should be used. In some cases, an explicit CAST(x AS FLOAT) may be needed. #6752
The custom error codes CR000 (indicating a transaction needs to be retried) and CR001 (indicating a transaction is in an invalid state) have been replaced with the PostgreSQL standard error codes 40001 (serialization failure) and 25000 (invalid transaction state), respectively. #6797

Fixed problems when tables are renamed or dropped and recreated in rapid succession. #6595
DROP DATABASE now works correctly with quoted names. #6851
Gracefully shutting down a node now completes faster. #6777
INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING no longer crashes the server when no conflicting index is given. #6795
INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING now requires only the INSERT permission instead of both INSERT and UPDATE. #6827
Numeric literals in scientific notation are now case-insensitive. #6864
TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE is now recognized as a synonym for TIMESTAMP. #6888
Attempting to access a database that does not exist now returns PostgreSQL error code 3D000 ("invalid catalog name") instead of a generic error. #6680

Most of the /_status/ HTTP endpoints now use GRPC internally. #6702 #6788
The cockroach exterminate command (which did not work) has been removed. #6780
Garbage collection now retains the first value outside the configured interval, since it was the current value at the start of the interval. #6778

This release includes 58 merged PRs by 16 authors. We would like to thank the following contributor from the CockroachDB community:

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