Release 304 (27 Feb 2019)

General

Fix wrong results for queries involving FULL OUTER JOIN and coalesce expressions over the join keys. ({issue}288)
Fix failure when a column is referenced using its fully qualified form. ({issue}250)
Correctly report physical and internal network position count for operators. ({issue}271)
Improve plan stability for repeated executions of the same query. ({issue}226)
Remove deprecated datasources configuration property. ({issue}306)
Improve error message when a query contains zero-length delimited identifiers. ({issue}249)
Avoid opening an unnecessary HTTP listener on an arbitrary port. ({issue}239)
Add experimental support for spilling for queries involving ORDER BY or window functions. ({issue}228)

Preserve modified configuration files when the RPM is uninstalled. ({issue}267)

Fix broken timeline view. ({issue}283)
Show data size and position count reported by connectors and by worker-to-worker data transfers in detailed query view. ({issue}271)

Fix authorization failure when using SQL Standard Based Authorization mode with user identifiers that contain capital letters. ({issue}289)
Fix wrong results when filtering on the hidden $bucket column for tables containing partitions with different bucket counts. Instead, queries will now fail in this case. ({issue}286)
Record the configured Hive time zone when writing ORC files. ({issue}212)
Use the time zone recorded in ORC files when reading timestamps. The configured Hive time zone, which was previously always used, is now used only as a default when the writer did not record the time zone. ({issue}212)
Support Parquet files written with Parquet 1.9+ that use DELTA_BINARY_PACKED encoding with the Parquet INT64 type. ({issue}334)
Allow setting the retry policy for the Thrift metastore client using the hive.metastore.thrift.client.* configuration properties. ({issue}240)
Reduce file system read operations when reading Parquet file footers. ({issue}296)
Allow ignoring Glacier objects in S3 rather than failing the query. This is disabled by default, as it may skip data that is expected to exist, but it can be enabled using the hive.s3.skip-glacier-objects configuration property. ({issue}305)
Add procedure system.sync_partition_metadata() to synchronize the partitions in the metastore with the partitions that are physically on the file system. ({issue}223)
Improve performance of ORC reader for columns that only contain nulls. ({issue}229)

Support queries over tables containing partitioning columns of any type. ({issue}252)
Support smallint, tinyint and date Cassandra types. ({issue}141)