2023 Changelog

- Parquet writer now uses reasonable row group size when invoked through `OUTFILE`. [#49325](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49325) ([Michael Kolupaev](https://github.com/al13n321)).
- Allow restricted keywords like `ARRAY` as an alias if the alias is quoted. Closes [#49324](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/49324). [#49360](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49360) ([Nikolay Degterinsky](https://github.com/evillique)).
- Data parts loading and deletion jobs were moved to shared server-wide pools instead of per-table pools. Pools sizes are controlled via settings `max_active_parts_loading_thread_pool_size`, `max_outdated_parts_loading_thread_pool_size` and `max_parts_cleaning_thread_pool_size` in top-level config. Table-level settings `max_part_loading_threads` and `max_part_removal_threads` became obsolete. [#49474](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49474) ([Nikita Mikhaylov](https://github.com/nikitamikhaylov)).
- Allow `?password=pass` in URL of the Play UI. Password is replaced in browser history. [#49505](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49505) ([Mike Kot](https://github.com/myrrc)).
- Allow reading zero-size objects from remote filesystems. (because empty files are not backup'd, so we might end up with zero blobs in metadata file). Closes [#49480](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/49480). [#49519](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49519) ([Kseniia Sumarokova](https://github.com/kssenii)).
- Attach thread MemoryTracker to `total_memory_tracker` after `ThreadGroup` detached. [#49527](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49527) ([Dmitry Novik](https://github.com/novikd)).
- Fix parameterized views when a query parameter is used multiple times in the query. [#49556](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49556) ([Azat Khuzhin](https://github.com/azat)).
- Release memory allocated for the last sent ProfileEvents snapshot in the context of a query. Followup [#47564](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/47564). [#49561](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49561) ([Dmitry Novik](https://github.com/novikd)).
- Function "makeDate" now provides a MySQL-compatible overload (year & day of the year argument). [#49603](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49603) ([Robert Schulze](https://github.com/rschu1ze)).
- Support `dictionary` table function for `RegExpTreeDictionary`. [#49666](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49666) ([Han Fei](https://github.com/hanfei1991)).
- Added weighted fair IO scheduling policy. Added dynamic resource manager, which allows IO scheduling hierarchy to be updated in runtime w/o server restarts. [#49671](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49671) ([Sergei Trifonov](https://github.com/serxa)).
- Add compose request after multipart upload to GCS. This enables the usage of copy operation on objects uploaded with the multipart upload. It's recommended to set `s3_strict_upload_part_size` to some value because compose request can fail on objects created with parts of different sizes. [#49693](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49693) ([Antonio Andelic](https://github.com/antonio2368)).
- For the `extractKeyValuePairs` function: improve the "best-effort" parsing logic to accept `key_value_delimiter` as a valid part of the value. This also simplifies branching and might even speed up things a bit. [#49760](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49760) ([Arthur Passos](https://github.com/arthurpassos)).
- Add `initial_query_id` field for system.processors\_profile\_log [#49777](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49777) ([helifu](https://github.com/helifu)).
- System log tables can now have custom sorting keys. [#49778](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49778) ([helifu](https://github.com/helifu)).
- A new field `partitions` to `system.query_log` is used to indicate which partitions are participating in the calculation. [#49779](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49779) ([helifu](https://github.com/helifu)).
- Added `enable_the_endpoint_id_with_zookeeper_name_prefix` setting for `ReplicatedMergeTree` (disabled by default). When enabled, it adds ZooKeeper cluster name to table's interserver communication endpoint. It avoids `Duplicate interserver IO endpoint` errors when having replicated tables with the same path, but different auxiliary ZooKeepers. [#49780](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49780) ([helifu](https://github.com/helifu)).
- Add query parameters to `clickhouse-local`. Closes [#46561](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/46561). [#49785](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49785) ([Nikolay Degterinsky](https://github.com/evillique)).
- Allow loading dictionaries and functions from YAML by default. In previous versions, it required editing the `dictionaries_config` or `user_defined_executable_functions_config` in the configuration file, as they expected `*.xml` files. [#49812](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49812) ([Alexey Milovidov](https://github.com/alexey-milovidov)).
- The Kafka table engine now allows to use alias columns. [#49824](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49824) ([Aleksandr Musorin](https://github.com/AVMusorin)).
- Add setting to limit the max number of pairs produced by `extractKeyValuePairs`, a safeguard to avoid using way too much memory. [#49836](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49836) ([Arthur Passos](https://github.com/arthurpassos)).
- Add support for (an unusual) case where the arguments in the `IN` operator are single-element tuples. [#49844](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49844) ([MikhailBurdukov](https://github.com/MikhailBurdukov)).
- `bitHammingDistance` function support `String` and `FixedString` data type. Closes [#48827](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/48827). [#49858](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49858) ([flynn](https://github.com/ucasfl)).
- Fix timeout resetting errors in the client on OS X. [#49863](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49863) ([alekar](https://github.com/alekar)).
- Add support for big integers, such as UInt128, Int128, UInt256, and Int256 in the function `bitCount`. This enables Hamming distance over large bit masks for AI applications. [#49867](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49867) ([Alexey Milovidov](https://github.com/alexey-milovidov)).
- Fingerprints to be used instead of key IDs in encrypted disks. This simplifies the configuration of encrypted disks. [#49882](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49882) ([Vitaly Baranov](https://github.com/vitlibar)).
- Add UUID data type to PostgreSQL. Closes [#49739](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/49739). [#49894](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49894) ([Nikolay Degterinsky](https://github.com/evillique)).
- Function `toUnixTimestamp` now accepts `Date` and `Date32` arguments. [#49989](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49989) ([Victor Krasnov](https://github.com/sirvickr)).
- Charge only server memory for dictionaries. [#49995](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/49995) ([Azat Khuzhin](https://github.com/azat)).
- The server will allow using the `SQL_*` settings such as `SQL_AUTO_IS_NULL` as no-ops for MySQL compatibility. This closes [#49927](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/49927). [#50013](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/50013) ([Alexey Milovidov](https://github.com/alexey-milovidov)).
- Preserve initial\_query\_id for ON CLUSTER queries, which is useful for introspection (under `distributed_ddl_entry_format_version=5`). [#50015](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/50015) ([Azat Khuzhin](https://github.com/azat)).
- Preserve backward incompatibility for renamed settings by using aliases (`allow_experimental_projection_optimization` for `optimize_use_projections`, `allow_experimental_lightweight_delete` for `enable_lightweight_delete`). [#50044](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/50044) ([Azat Khuzhin](https://github.com/azat)).