Release 0.157#

General#

  • Fix regression that could cause queries containing scalar subqueries to fail during planning.

  • Reduce CPU usage of coordinator in large, heavily loaded clusters.

  • Add support for DESCRIBE OUTPUT.

  • Add bitwise_and_agg() and bitwise_or_agg() aggregation functions.

  • Add JMX stats for the scheduler.

  • Add query.min-schedule-split-batch-size config flag to set the minimum number of splits to consider for scheduling per batch.

  • Remove support for scheduling multiple tasks in the same stage on a single worker.

  • Rename node-scheduler.max-pending-splits-per-node-per-stage to node-scheduler.max-pending-splits-per-task. The old name may still be used, but is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.

Hive#

  • Fail attempts to create tables that are bucketed on non-existent columns.

  • Improve error message when trying to query tables that are bucketed on non-existent columns.

  • Add support for processing partitions whose schema does not match the table schema.

  • Add support for creating external Hive tables using the external_location table property.