What's New in v20.1.0-alpha.20191118

November 18, 2019

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General changes

• Guidance on how to contribute to CockroachDB has been moved to the public wiki at wiki.crdb.io. #41542
• Removed the kv.bulk_io_write.addsstable_max_rate cluster setting. #41745
• Improved the consistency checker's log output. #41893
• When the replicas within a range are found to be corrupted, the outliers will be terminated. Previously, the leaseholder replica would terminate, regardless of which replicas disagreed with each other. This is expected to curb the spread of corrupted data better than the previous approach. #41902

Backward-incompatible changes

• The extract() built-in function with sub-second arguments (millisecond, microsecond) is now Postgres-compatible, and will return the total number of seconds in addition to sub-seconds. Anyone who was previously relying on extract() to return only sub-second data will need to adjust their applications. #41069

Enterprise edition changes

• IMPORT statements now support specifying CSV filenames using wildcard characters. This behavior can be disabled with the WITH disabled_glob_matching option. #40714
• When using a nodelocal file URL for IMPORT/BACKUP/RESTORE/EXPORT, you can now specify which node's local file system to use by including the node's ID in the URL: nodelocal://<nodeID>/path/file.csv. #41990
• Added the new WITH experimental_save_rejected option for skipping faulty rows during IMPORT, saving the faulty rows in a file called <original_csv_file>.rejected. After fixing the problems in this file, you can use it with IMPORT INTO. #41430

SQL language changes

• The extract() built-in function now supports millennium, century, decade, isoyear, isodow, and julian for DATE, TIMESTAMP, and TIMESTAMPTZ. The date_trunct() function now supports millennium, century, and decade for DATE, TIMESTAMP, and TIMESTAMPTZ. #41784
• extract() now supports a string constant as element argument. #41429
• Added support for the JOIN LATERAL syntax. #40945
• Added support for WITH RECURSIVE with UNION ALL. #41368
• Added support for bit_and() and bit_or() aggregate functions. #41334
• NULL values are now allowed to be among tuples when being compared against a tuple. #40298
• Added syntax-only support for ORDER BY ... NULLS FIRST | LAST. #41544
• Comments can now be associated to indexes with COMMENT ON INDEX and can be checked with SHOW INDEXES FROM ... WITH COMMENT. #41555
• SELECT and HAVING can now refer to ungrouped columns when the grouped columns contain the primary key of the table containing the ungrouped columns. #41732
• Dropping a unique index that was created via CREATE UNIQUE INDEX statement no longer requires the CASCADE option. #42001
• Added the pg_prepared_statements table. #42018

Command-line changes

• The new --storage-engine flag for cockroach start, and equivalent COCKROACH_STORAGE_ENGINE environment variable, specify the type of storage engine a node should use. Options are rocksdb (default) and pebble. #41453
• Enhanced the error message produced by cockroach init when it encounters an already-initialized cluster to recommend adding --join to the cockroach start commands. #42318

Bug fixes

• The Admin UI no longer mixes unit sizes in timeseries graph tooltips. #40970
• The pg_collation_for() function now correctly quotes its output. #41545
• Fixed an internal error when subqueries are used in arguments to commands like SET. #41581
• CockroachDB now properly emits the cluster ID, once known, to all secondary log files (SQL audit logging, statement execution logging, and RocksDB events) and properly removes excess secondary log files. #40993
• Other callers to acquireNodeLease will not get erroneously cancelled just because the context of the first caller was cancelled. #41785
• Vectorized execution no longer errors when adding an ordinality column to an expression with a limit. For example, SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM foo LIMIT 1) WITH ORDINALITY no longer throws an index out of range error. #41782
• Fixed a bug causing rare crashes when using built-in functions. #41970
• The date_trunc() function now correctly considers timezones for TIMESTAMPTZ and DATE types. #42006
• Fixed a bug causing CREATE TABLE AS statements to fail with the message "unexpected concurrency for a flow that was forced to be planned locally". #42013
• Fixed a bug where SHOW ZONE CONFIGURATION and crdb_internal.zones would show results for resources the user does not have permission to view. #42066, #42080
• Fixed a bug during planning for some queries that could cause an infinite loop and prevent the query from being cancelled. #42082
• Fixed a bug that caused jobs for dropping tables to report an inaccurate status. #42121
• Fixed a bug where rapid network disconnections could lead to cluster unavailability. #41533
• Fixed a stack overflow that could occur with certain patterns of queries. #41984
• Fixed some casts from OID to TEXT. #41928
• Fixed a bug where some cluster setting changes were not reflected during currently running IMPORTs. #42268
• Fixed bugs where: <date>:date would result in the previous day (<date-1>::date>) when context local timestamp is set and the timezone is less than UTC+00:00; date_trunc() for TIMESTAMP would produce incorrect results if a local timezone was set; and date_trunc() for DATE would produce an incorrect negative timezone offset in a local timezone. #42267
• Casting TIMESTAMPTZ data to the TIME type NOW properly respects time zone information. #42269
• Fixed a crash when using EXPLAIN (VEC) on some index joins. #40897

Performance improvements

• Improved performance for some join queries due to improved filter inference during query planning. #41250
• Improved statistics estimation during query planning for columns with many NULL values. #41520
• The cockroach debug check-store command is now faster. #41805
• Improved the low-level performance of short range reverse scans. #42092
• Individual response messages in a response batch no longer each contain information about transaction state changes. #42139
• BACKUP work is now more evenly spread across clusters that have non-uniform leaseholder distributions. #42274

Contributors

This release includes 376 merged PRs by 48 authors. We would like to thank the following contributors from the CockroachDB community:

• Aayush Shah (first-time contributor)
• Andrea Sosso (first-time contributor)
• Arber Avdullahu (first-time contributor)
• Elliot Courant
• George Papadrosou
• Roga Pria Sembada (first-time contributor)
• Salvatore Tomaselli (first-time contributor)
• lzhfromustc (first-time contributor)
• sumeerbhola (first-time contributor)

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