Release 0.185

    • Fix excessive CPU usage in coordinator for queries that have large string literals containing non-ASCII characters.

    • Fix incorrect ordering when the same field appears multiple times with different ordering specifications in a window function ORDER BY clause. For example: OVER (ORDER BY x ASC, x DESC).

    • Do not allow dropping or renaming hidden columns.

    • Improve performance of joins where the condition is a range over a function. For example: a JOIN b ON b.x < f(a.x) AND b.x > g(a.x)

    • Improve performance of certain window functions (e.g., ) with similar specifications.

    • Add cast from JSON to ROW.

    • Improve ORC reader efficiency by only reading small ORC streams when accessed in the query.

    • Improve RCFile IO efficiency by increasing the buffer size from 1 to 8 MB.

    • Fix native memory leak for optimized RCFile writer.

    • Add support for views.