What's New in v2.0.5

August 13, 2018

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SQL language changes

• The binary Postgres wire format is now supported for INTERVAL values. #28135

Bug fixes

• IMPORT no longer silently converts \r\n characters in CSV files into \n. #28225
• Fixed a bug that could cause the row following a deleted row to be skipped during BACKUP. #28196
• Limited the size of "batch groups" when committing a batch to RocksDB to avoid rare scenarios in which multi-gigabyte batch groups are created, which can cause a server to run out of memory when replaying the RocksDB log at startup. #28009
• Prevented unbounded growth of the Raft log caused by a loss of quorum. #27868
• CockroachDB now properly reports an error when a query attempts to use ORDER BY within a function argument list, which is an unsupported feature. #25147

Doc updates

• Added a Performance Tuning tutorial that demonstrates essential techniques for getting fast reads and writes in CockroachDB, starting with a single-region deployment and expanding into multiple regions. #3378
• Expanded the Production Checklist to cover a detailed explanation of network flags and scenarios and updated production deployment tutorials to encourage the use of --advertise-host on node start. #3352
• Expanded the Kubernetes tutorials to include setting up monitoring and alerting with Prometheus and Alertmanager. #3370
• Updated the OpenSSL certificate tutorial to allow multiple node certificates with the same subject. #3423

Contributors

This release includes 9 merged PRs by 7 authors. We would like to thank the following contributor from the CockroachDB community:

• neeral