12.34. Release 301#

General Changes#

Fix reporting of aggregate input data size stats. (#100)
Add support for role management (see CREATE ROLE). Note, using SET ROLE requires an up-to-date client library. (#90)
Add INVOKER security mode for CREATE VIEW. (#30)
Add ANALYZE SQL statement for collecting table statistics. (#99)
Add log() function with arbitrary base. (#36)
Remove the deprecated.legacy-log-function configuration option. The legacy behavior (reverse argument order) for the log() function is no longer available. (#36)
Remove the deprecated.legacy-array-agg configuration option. The legacy behavior (ignoring nulls) for array_agg() is no longer available. (#77)
Improve performance of COALESCE expressions. (#35)
Improve error message for unsupported reduce_agg() state type. (#55)
Improve performance of queries involving SYSTEM table sampling and computations over the columns of the sampled table. (#29)

Add procedure for dumping metastore recording to a file. (#54)
Add Metastore recorder support for Glue. (#61)
Add hive.temporary-staging-directory-enabled configuration property and temporary_staging_directory_enabled session property to control whether a temporary staging directory should be used for write operations. (#70)
Add hive.temporary-staging-directory-path configuration property and temporary_staging_directory_path session property to control the location of temporary staging directory that is used for write operations. The ${USER} placeholder can be used to use a different location for each user (e.g., /tmp/${USER}). (#70)

Include session trace token in QueryCreatedEvent and QueryCompletedEvent. (#24)
Fix regression in NodeManager where node list was not being refreshed on workers. (#27)