v1.2.5 release notes

Released April 18, 2019.

Downloads

docker pull yugabytedb/yugabyte:1.2.5.0-b13

Enabled support for DROP CONSTRAINT IF EXISTS. #1124
Disabled creating user tables on template0/template1 databases. #1106
Use localhost as default when no host is specified while starting psql. #1114
Added ability to log warnings and continue operation for unsupported SQL options instead of erroring out. #1132
Improved grammar error message for unsupported options by including relevant GitHub issue link. #1176

Fixed a bug where updating a column that was previously null would ignore the update. #1173
Fixed a bug where older postgress process was not being killed when tserver is restarted. #1089
Fixed timeout in YCQL when selecting from a table with offset/limit if offset+limit > number of rows. #1099
Fixed a bug where index entries were not being deleted when corresponding row was deleted from table.#1193
Fixed a memory corruption issue while closing raft peer. #1150
Fixed a bug in YCQL where creating secondary index would fail if INCLUDE clause included primary key columns from indexed table. #1073

Speed up initdb time by 2x by fixing primary key scan for tables with oids. #1207
Speed up local bootstrap by removing rewrite of WAL entries on bootstrap. #982
Improve SSL failure reporting by interpreting SSL_read 0 result as failure. #1210
Preallocate objects IDs in smaller chunks for YSQL. #1214
Disable transactional property for sequences table. #1029
Improve compaction speed by avoiding decode of full doc subkey. #1178
Added support for showing number of live tablets in Master UI’s tablet server page. #1106
Reduced memory consumption of UpdateConsensus. #1148
Avoid race condition warning in ParseTree::clear_reparsed(). #1146
Moved yb-ctl to yugabyte-installation repository.