Version 4.5.1

Released on 2021-05-03.

Note

If upgrading a cluster, you must be running CrateDB 4.0.2 or higher before you upgrade to 4.5.1.

We recommend that you upgrade to the latest 4.4 release before moving to 4.5.1.

A rolling upgrade from 4.4.0+ to 4.5.1 is supported.

Before upgrading, you should back up your data.

See the Version 4.5.0 release notes for a full list of changes in the 4.5 series.

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that could cause queries on virtual tables to return an incorrect result if a table function is used in the select-list of a sub-query, but not used in the outputs of the parent relation. An example:

    1. SELECT name FROM (SELECT name, unnest(tags) FROM metrics) m;

  • Updated the bundled JDK to 16.0.1+9

  • Fixed an issue that would cause columns of type varchar with a length limited to be incorrectly casted to another type if used as argument in a function that has several type overloads.

  • Fixed an issue that caused ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN statements to remove constraints like analyzers or NOT NULL from existing columns in the same table.

  • Allow executing CREATE TABLE .. AS as a regular user with DDL permission on the target schema, and DQL permission on the source relations.

  • Changed the RowDescription message that is sent to PostgreSQL clients to avoid that the JDBC client triggers queries against pg_catalog schema tables each time information from the MetaData of a ResultSet is accessed.

  • Fixed crate-node auxiliary program to use the bundled Java runtime on Linux.