Add release notes for 0.271

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Missing Release Notes

Amit Dutta

• Adding checkArgument function to properly throw Presto Exception when… #17245 Adding checkArgument function to properly throw Presto Exception when… (Merged by: Timothy Meehan)

Masha Basmanova

• Mark tdigest_agg function as public #17316 Mark tdigest_agg function as public (Merged by: Maria Basmanova)

Rongrong Zhong

• Make sure ConsistentHashingNodeProvider returns unique candidates #17228 Make sure ConsistentHashingNodeProvider returns unique candidates (Merged by: Rongrong Zhong)

singcha

• add warning when map with double or real as key is created #17246 add warning when map with double or real as key is created (Merged by: Rebecca Schlussel)

Extracted Release Notes

• Spill large blocks to separate spill files in distinct aggregates #17096 (Author: Arjun Gupta): Spill large blocks to separate spill files in distinct aggregates
  • Add a new configuration property experimental.distinct-aggregation-large-block-spill-enabled to enable spilling of blocks that are larger than experimental.distinct-aggregation-large-block-size-threshold bytes into a separate spill file. This can be overridden by distinct_aggregation_large_block_spill_enabled session property.
  • Add a new configuration property experimental.distinct-aggregation-large-block-size-threshold to define the threshold size beyond which the block will be spilled into a separate spill file. This can be overridden by distinct_aggregation_large_block_size_threshold session property.
• Test and fix cast from bigint to varchar #17152 (Author: v-jizhang): Test and fix cast from bigint to varchar
  • Test and fix cast from bigint to varchar.
• Support basic timestamp in the iceberg connector #17190 (Author: Chunxu Tang): Support basic timestamp in the iceberg connector
  • Support basic timestamp in the iceberg connector.
• Remove iceberg.catalog.uri from iceberg connector configs #17237 (Author: Chunxu Tang): Remove iceberg.catalog.uri from iceberg connector configs
  • Remove the iceberg.catalog.uri config. Use hive.metastore.uri instead.
• Add Prepared statement sql to query lifecycle events #17258 (Author: Shashwat Arghode): Add Prepared statement sql to query lifecycle events
  • Add support for viewing expanded prepared query in Web UI.
• Support ORC format caching for iceberg connector #17262 (Author: JySongWithZhangCe): Support ORC format caching for iceberg connector
  • Support ORC format caching module for iceberg connector.
• Only collect stats for primitive types in ThriftHiveMetastore #17268 (Author: Otakar Trunecek): Only collect stats for primitive types in ThriftHiveMetastore
  • Fix ANALYZE TABLE for partitioned Hive tables with complex columns (array, map, struct).
  • Improve performance of ANALYZE TABLE on hive tables with complex columns.
• Fix CBO broadcast join reordering #17297 (Author: Rongrong Zhong): Fix CBO broadcast join reordering
  • Fix reorder joins optimization where plan might not be optimal when original build side is larger than configured join-max-broadcast-table-size.

All Commits

• 0b50dcc Mark tdigest_agg function as public (Masha Basmanova)
• 73516ea Reduce memory used by primitive flat map value blocks (Sergii Druzkin)
• 246dff7 Avoid volatile writes for empty responses in PageBufferClient (James Petty)
• f4ce316 Fix documentation for tdigest_agg (Masha Basmanova)
• 2da621d Reduce memory consumed by flat map value block (Sergii Druzkin)
• 33a3f4d Add Prepared statement sql to query lifecycle events (Shashwat Arghode)
• 492aded Disabling flaky test (Swapnil Tailor)
• 877ae0e Optimize creation of OrcDecompressor.OutputBuffer in OrcInputStream (Sergii Druzkin)
• d53b41d Split ci workflow into multiple workflows (Swapnil Tailor)
• 2ff205f Fix CBO broadcast join reordering (Rongrong Zhong)
• 7330a04 Improve SimpleTtlNodeSelector performance (Neerad Somanchi)
• 2be3158 Fix long dictionary raw bytes estimate (Arunachalam Thirupathi)
• 211390b add warning when map with double or real as key is created (singcha)
• 60d644f Option to disable string dictionary encoding in OrcWriter (Arunachalam Thirupathi)
• 61ea2fa Use Factory method in OrcWriterOptions (Arunachalam Thirupathi)
• a207136 Reuse compression buffer in OrcWriter (Arunachalam Thirupathi)
• ae1dec7 Support enums in partition columnst (Pranjal Shankhdhar)
• 6ea0fd1 Add thrift serde support for ClusterStats (Abhishek Aggarwal)
• aae9d9f Support ORC format caching for iceberg connector (JySongWithZhangCe)
• a8fa57f Fix flaky TestClusterStatsResource (abhiseksaikia)
• dfb6fd3 Use minified JS for production UI (Mayank Garg)
• 1b06b01 Make coordinator index page use /v1/queryState (Mayank Garg)
• 3e8e662 Fix query ordering comparator in QueryResource (Mayank Garg)
• a7af002 Extend QueryStateInfo to handle Coordinator UI (Mayank Garg)
• a25592e Only collect stats for primitive types in ThriftHiveMetastore (Otakar Trunecek)
• 621d42d Support basic timestamp in the iceberg connector (Chunxu Tang)
• ba19b45 Increasing timeout for a test to avoid it's flakyness (Swapnil Tailor)
• 8987909 Update iceberg connector doc with hadoop catalog configs (Chunxu Tang)
• 4a96813 Improve MetadataQueryOptimizer with a threshold to limit calls to Metastore (ericyuliu)
• dd0c621 Make sure ConsistentHashingNodeProvider returns unique candidates (Rongrong Zhong)
• d37ac07 Spill large blocks to separate spill files in distinct aggregates (Arjun Gupta)
• 003ecf9 Test and fix cast from bigint to varchar (v-jizhang)
• 66e4f63 Remove iceberg.catalog.uri from iceberg connector configs (Chunxu Tang)
• afdd49e Add Thrift support for ResourceGroupInfo (Zitong Wei)
• c147721 Plumb enum type through create table/view and insert into DDL (mengdilin)
• 28abe81 Adding checkArgument function to properly throw Presto Exception when argument is invalid. (Amit Dutta)

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