Release Notes 2020.3.1

The 2020.3.1 release notes were released on October 8, 2020 and describe the following:

New Features 

The following list describes the new features:

TEXT data type:
- Full support for MIN and MAX aggregate functions on TEXT columns in GROUP BY queries.
- Support Text-type as window partition keys (e.g., select distinct name, max(id) over (partition by name) from textTable;).
- Support Text-type fields in windows order by keys.
- Support join on TEXT columns (such as t1.x = t2.y where x and y are columns of type TEXT).
- Complete the implementation of LIKE on TEXT columns (previously limited to prefix and suffix).
- Support for cast fromm TEXT to REAL/FLOAT.
- New string function - REPEAT for repeating a string value for a specified number of times.
Support mapping DECIMAL ORC columns to SQream’s floating-point types.
Support LIKE on non-literal patterns (such as columns and complex expressions).
Catch OS signals and save the signal along with the stack trace in the SQream debug log.
Support equijoin conditions on columns with different types (such as tinyint, smallint, int and bigint).
DUMP_DATABASE_DDL now includes foreign tables in the output.
New utility function - TRUNCATE_IF_EXISTS.

The following list describes the performance enhancements:

Introduced the “MetaData on Demand” feature which results in signicant proformance improvements.
Implemented regex functions (RLIKE, REGEXP_COUNT, REGEXP_INSTR, REGEXP_SUBSTR, PATINDEX) for TEXT columns on GPU.

The following list describes the resolved issues:

Multiple distinct aggregates no longer need to be used with developerMode flag.
In some scenarios, the statement_id and connection_id values are incorrectly recorded as -1 in the log.
NOT RLIKE is not supported for TEXT in the compiler.
Casting from TEXT to date/datetime returns an error when the TEXT column contains NULL.

No known issues and limitations.

Versions are available for IBM POWER9, RedHat (CentOS) 7, Ubuntu 18.04, and other OSs via Docker.

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