2023 Changelog

### ClickHouse release 23.2, 2023-02-23. [Presentation](https://presentations.clickhouse.com/2023-release-23.2/), [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o0vRMMIrkY)[​](#232 "Direct link to 232")

#### Backward Incompatible Change[​](#backward-incompatible-change-8 "Direct link to Backward Incompatible Change")

- Extend function "toDayOfWeek()" (alias: "DAYOFWEEK") with a mode argument that encodes whether the week starts on Monday or Sunday and whether counting starts at 0 or 1. For consistency with other date time functions, the mode argument was inserted between the time and the time zone arguments. This breaks existing usage of the (previously undocumented) 2-argument syntax "toDayOfWeek(time, time\_zone)". A fix is to rewrite the function into "toDayOfWeek(time, 0, time\_zone)". [#45233](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45233) ([Robert Schulze](https://github.com/rschu1ze)).
- Rename setting `max_query_cache_size` to `filesystem_cache_max_download_size`. [#45614](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45614) ([Kseniia Sumarokova](https://github.com/kssenii)).
- The `default` user will not have permissions for access type `SHOW NAMED COLLECTION` by default (e.g. `default` user will no longer be able to grant ALL to other users as it was before, therefore this PR is backward incompatible). [#46010](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/46010) ([Kseniia Sumarokova](https://github.com/kssenii)).
- If the SETTINGS clause is specified before the FORMAT clause, the settings will be applied to formatting as well. [#46003](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/46003) ([Azat Khuzhin](https://github.com/azat)).
- Remove support for setting `materialized_postgresql_allow_automatic_update` (which was by default turned off). [#46106](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/46106) ([Kseniia Sumarokova](https://github.com/kssenii)).
- Slightly improve performance of `countDigits` on realistic datasets. This closed [#44518](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/44518). In previous versions, `countDigits(0)` returned `0`; now it returns `1`, which is more correct, and follows the existing documentation. [#46187](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/46187) ([Alexey Milovidov](https://github.com/alexey-milovidov)).
- Disallow creation of new columns compressed by a combination of codecs "Delta" or "DoubleDelta" followed by codecs "Gorilla" or "FPC". This can be bypassed using setting "allow\_suspicious\_codecs = true". [#45652](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45652) ([Robert Schulze](https://github.com/rschu1ze)).

#### New Feature[​](#new-feature-10 "Direct link to New Feature")

- Add `StorageIceberg` and table function `iceberg` to access iceberg table store on S3. [#45384](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45384) ([flynn](https://github.com/ucasfl)).
- Allow configuring storage as `SETTINGS disk = '<disk_name>'` (instead of `storage_policy`) and with explicit disk creation `SETTINGS disk = disk(type=s3, ...)`. [#41976](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/41976) ([Kseniia Sumarokova](https://github.com/kssenii)).
- Expose `ProfileEvents` counters in `system.part_log`. [#38614](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/38614) ([Bharat Nallan](https://github.com/bharatnc)).
- Enrichment of the existing `ReplacingMergeTree` engine to allow duplicate the insertion. It leverages the power of both `ReplacingMergeTree` and `CollapsingMergeTree` in one MergeTree engine. Deleted data are not returned when queried, but not removed from disk neither. [#41005](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/41005) ([youennL-cs](https://github.com/youennL-cs)).
- Add `generateULID` function. Closes [#36536](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/36536). [#44662](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/44662) ([Nikolay Degterinsky](https://github.com/evillique)).
- Add `corrMatrix` aggregate function, calculating each two columns. In addition, since Aggregatefunctions `covarSamp` and `covarPop` are similar to `corr`, I add `covarSampMatrix`, `covarPopMatrix` by the way. @alexey-milovidov closes [#44587](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/44587). [#44680](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/44680) ([FFFFFFFHHHHHHH](https://github.com/FFFFFFFHHHHHHH)).
- Introduce arrayShuffle function for random array permutations. [#45271](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45271) ([Joanna Hulboj](https://github.com/jh0x)).
- Support types `FIXED_SIZE_BINARY` type in Arrow, `FIXED_LENGTH_BYTE_ARRAY` in `Parquet` and match them to `FixedString`. Add settings `output_format_parquet_fixed_string_as_fixed_byte_array/output_format_arrow_fixed_string_as_fixed_byte_array` to control default output type for FixedString. Closes [#45326](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/45326). [#45340](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45340) ([Kruglov Pavel](https://github.com/Avogar)).
- Add a new column `last_exception_time` to system.replication\_queue. [#45457](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45457) ([Frank Chen](https://github.com/FrankChen021)).
- Add two new functions which allow for user-defined keys/seeds with SipHash128. [#45513](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45513) ([Salvatore Mesoraca](https://github.com/aiven-sal)).
- Allow a three-argument version for table function `format`. close [#45808](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/45808). [#45873](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45873) ([FFFFFFFHHHHHHH](https://github.com/FFFFFFFHHHHHHH)).
- Add `JodaTime` format support for 'x','w','S'. Refer to <https://joda-time.sourceforge.net/apidocs/org/joda/time/format/DateTimeFormat.html>. [#46073](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/46073) ([zk\_kiger](https://github.com/zk-kiger)).
- Support window function `ntile`. ([lgbo](https://github.com/lgbo-ustc)).
- Add setting `final` to implicitly apply the `FINAL` modifier to every table. [#40945](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/40945) ([Arthur Passos](https://github.com/arthurpassos)).
- Added `arrayPartialSort` and `arrayPartialReverseSort` functions. [#46296](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/46296) ([Joanna Hulboj](https://github.com/jh0x)).
- The new http parameter `client_protocol_version` allows setting a client protocol version for HTTP responses using the Native format. [#40397](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/40397). [#46360](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/46360) ([Geoff Genz](https://github.com/genzgd)).
- Add new function `regexpExtract`, like spark function `REGEXP_EXTRACT` for compatibility. It is similar to the existing function `extract`. [#46469](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/46469) ([李扬](https://github.com/taiyang-li)).
- Add new function `JSONArrayLength`, which returns the number of elements in the outermost JSON array. The function returns NULL if the input JSON string is invalid. [#46631](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/46631) ([李扬](https://github.com/taiyang-li)).

#### Performance Improvement[​](#performance-improvement-10 "Direct link to Performance Improvement")