Version 4.2.2

Released on 2020-07-28.

Note

If you are upgrading a cluster, you must be running CrateDB 4.0.2 or higher before you upgrade to 4.2.2.

We recommend that you upgrade to the latest 4.1 release before moving to 4.2.2.

A rolling upgrade from 4.1.7+ to 4.2.2 is supported.

Before upgrading, you should back up your data.

See the Version 4.2.0 release notes for a full list of changes in the 4.2 series.

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that occasionally caused EXPLAIN ANALYZE to return invalid query breakdown results or fail with the index out of bound exception.
  • Fixed a regression that caused INSERT INTO statements in tables with a nested CLUSTERED BY column to fail.
  • Fixed a regression introduced in 4.2.0 that caused subscript lookups on ignored object columns to raise an error instead of a null value if the key doesn’t exist.
  • Fixed a performance regression introduced in 4.2.0 which caused queries with a ORDER BY but without LIMIT to execute slower than they used to.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented queries executed using a query-then-fetch strategy from being labelled correctly in the sys.jobs_metrics and sys.jobs_log tables.
  • Fixed a regression introduced in 4.2.0 which caused queries including a virtual table, and both a ORDER BY and LIMIT clause to fail.
  • Fixed a regression introduced in 4.2.0 that resulted in NULL values being returned for partition columns instead of the actual values.
  • Allow all users to execute DISCARD and SET TRANSACTION statement. These are session local statements and shouldn’t require special privileges.
  • Updated the bundled JDK to 14.0.2-12
  • Increased the default interval for stats.service.interval <stats.service.interval> from one hour to 24 hours because invoking it every hour caused significant extra load on a cluster.
  • Fixed an issue that caused SHOW CREATE TABLE to print columns of type VARCHAR(n) as TEXT, leading to a loss of the length information when using the SHOW CREATE TABLE statement to re-create a table.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN statements from working on tables containing a PRIMARY KEY column with a INDEX OFF definition.