CDH 4 Release Notes

The following lists all Sqoop Jiras included in CDH 4 that are not included in the Sqoop base version 1.4.1. The sqoop-1.4.1+18.CHANGES.txt file lists all changes included in CDH 4. The patch for each change can be found in the cloudera/patches directory in the release tarball.

Changes Not In Sqoop 1.4.1

Sqoop

Bug

[SQOOP-473] - Sqoop import-all-tables fails with MySQL connector
[SQOOP-448] - boolean fields get nullified during postgres direct import into hive.
[SQOOP-352] - Export of avro data imported from database table (using sqoop import) fails on year
[SQOOP-450] - Direct MySQL import can fail when using mysqldump version 5.1.14 or above.
[SQOOP-425] - Sqoop invokes ResultSet.isLast() which causes Sybase JDBC driver to hang

Improvement

[SQOOP-465] - BLOB support for Avro import
[SQOOP-464] - Warn when user is importing data into /user/hive/warehouse with flag --hive-import
[SQOOP-463] - Sqoop User Guide's troubleshooting section should explain how to override the column mapping when importing a table from MySQL into Hive
[SQOOP-461] - Sqoop User Guide's troubleshooting section should include Oracle Connection Errors
[SQOOP-459] - Remove redundant steps in compatibility tests: verifyReadback() method
[SQOOP-416] - Allow code-generation arguments with Avro imports
[SQOOP-438] - allow sourcing of sqoop-env.sh to set various environment variables
[SQOOP-440] - Rename CHANGES.txt to CHANGELOG.txt

New Feature

[SQOOP-444] - Support incremental import for free form queries