Add support for dropping nested fields with a DROP COLUMN statement. (#15975)
Add queue, analysis, planning, and execution time to the output of
EXPLAIN ANALYZE. (#16329)
Add support for executing table functions with any number of table arguments. (#1839)
Improve output of EXPLAIN queries to show statistics when a query contains
aggregations. (#16201)
Improve performance of queries with aggregations containing a DISTINCT
clause using table statistics. This can be configured with the
optimizer.mark-distinct-strategyconfiguration property, and the
optimizer.use-mark-distinct configuration property is now deprecated in
favor of it. (#15927)
Improve performance of LIKE expressions with patterns constructed dynamically. (#15999)
Remove the distributed-index-joins-enabled configuration property and
related functionality. (#15375)
Fix failure when using non-comparable and non-sortable values as part of a
VALUES expression. (#16242)
Add support for the Hadoop DefaultCodec to Hive formats. (#16250)
Add a native CSV file format reader and writer. These can be disabled with the
csv_native_reader_enabled and csv_native_writer_enabled session properties
or the csv.native-reader.enabled and csv.native-writer.enabled
configuration properties. (#15918)
Add a native JSON file format reader and writer. These can be disabled with
the json_native_reader_enabled and json_native_writer_enabled session
properties or the json.native-reader.enabled and
json.native-writer.enabled configuration properties. (#15918)
Add a native text file format reader and writer. These can be disabled with
the text_file_native_reader_enabled and text_file_native_writer_enabled
session properties or the text-file.native-reader.enabled and
text-file.native-writer.enabled configuration properties. (#15918)
Add a native sequence file format reader and writer. These can be disabled
with the sequence_file_native_reader_enabled and
sequence_file_native_writer_enabled session properties or the
sequence-file.native-reader.enabled and
sequence-file.native-writer.enabled configuration properties. (#15918)
Add a native regex file format reader. The reader can be disabled with the
regex_native_reader_enabled session property or the
regex.native-reader.enabled configuration property. (#15918)
Add regex and regex_case_insensitive table properties for the REGEX
format. (#16271)
Improve performance of queries which read from partitioned Hive tables and
write to partitioned tables when statistics are not available for the source
tables. (#16229)
Improve query performance when only table statistics generated by Apache Spark
are available. This can be disabled via the
hive.metastore.thrift.use-spark-table-statistics-fallback configuration
property. (#16120)
Fix incorrectly ignoring computed table statistics in ANALYZE. (#15995)
Fix query failure when reading Parquet files generated by Kafka Connect. (#16264)
Add support for pushing down joins using = and != predicates over text
columns if the column uses a case-sensitive collation within SQL Server. (#16185)