22.17. Release 0.141-t

Presto 0.141-t is equivalent to Presto release 0.141, with some additional features.

Prepared Statements

Add support for Prepared statements and parameters via sql syntax.

  • PREPARE
  • DEALLOCATE PREPARE
  • EXECUTE
  • DESCRIBE INPUT
  • DESCRIBE OUTPUT

Regular Expressions

Add support for running regular expression functions using the more efficent re2j-td library by setting the session variable regex_library to RE2J. The memory footprint can be adjusted by setting re2j_dfa_states_limit. Additionally, the number of times the re2j library falls back from its DFA algorithm to the NFA algorithm (due to hitting the states limit) before immediately starting with the NFA algorithm can be set with the re2j_dfa_retries session variable.

Kerberos Support

Add support for Presto to query from a Kerberized Hadoop cluster. The Hive connector provides additonal security options to support Hadoop clusters that have been configured to use Kerberos. When accessing HDFS, Presto can impersonate the end user who is running the query. This can be used with HDFS permissions and ACLs to provide additional security for data.

EXPLAIN ANALYZE

Execute the statement and show the distributed execution plan of the statement along with the cost of each operation.

DECIMAL

DECIMAL is a fixed precision data type that has been added.

Unsupported Functionality

Some functionality from Presto 0.141 may work but is not officially supported by Teradata.

  • The installation method as documented on prestodb.io.
  • Web Connector for Tableau
  • The following connectors:
    • Cassandra
    • Kafka
    • Redis
    • Hive-hadoop1
    • Hive-cdh4
  • Developing Plugins

Beta Features

Decimal support is currently in Beta stage.

SQL/DML/DDL Limitations

  • The SQL keyword end is used as a column name in system.runtime.queries, so in order to query from that column, end must be wrapped in quotes
  • NATURAL JOIN is not supported
  • Correlated subqueries are not supported
  • Non-equi joins are only supported for inner join – e.g. "n_name" < "p_name"
  • EXISTS, EXCEPT, and INTERSECT are not supported
  • ROLLUP, CUBE, GROUPING SETS are not supported
  • LIMIT ALL and OFFSET are not supported

Hive Connector Limitations

Teradata supports data stored in the following formats:

  • Text files
  • ORC
  • RCFILE
  • PARQUET

Hive to Presto data type mapping

Presto does not map Hive data types 1-to-1:

  • All integral types are mapped to BIGINT
  • FLOAT and DOUBLE are mapped to DOUBLE
  • STRING and VARCHAR are mapped to VARCHAR

These mappings may be visible if column values are passed to Hive UDFs or through slight differences in mathematical operations.

Because FLOAT values are mapped to DOUBLE, the user may see unexpected results. For example, a Hive data file containing a FLOAT column with value 123.345, will be presented to the user as a double whose string representation is 123.34500122070312.

TIMESTAMP limitations

Presto supports a granularity of milliseconds for the TIMESTAMP datatype, while Hive supports microseconds.

TIMESTAMP values in tables are parsed according to the server’s timezone. If this is not what you want, you must start Presto in the UTC timezone. To do this, set the JVM timezone to UTC: -Duser.timezone=UTC and also add the following property in the Hive connector properties file: hive.time-zone=UTC.

Presto’s method for declaring timestamps with/with out timezone is not sql standard. In Presto, both are declared using the word TIMESTAMP, e.g. TIMESTAMP '2003-12-10 10:32:02.1212' or TIMESTAMP '2003-12-10 10:32:02.1212 UTC'. The timestamp is determined to be with or without timezone depending on whether you include a time zone at the end of the timestamp. In other systems, timestamps are explicitly declared as TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE or TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE (with TIMESTAMP being an alias for one of them). In these systems, if you declare a TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIMEZONE, and your string has a timezone at the end, it is silently ignored. If you declare a TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE and no time zone is included, the string is interpreted in the user time zone.

INSERT INTO ... VALUES limitations

The data types must be exact, i.e. must use 2.0 for double, cast('2015-1-1' as date) for date, and you must supply a value for every column.

INSERT INTO ... SELECT limitations

INSERT INTO creates unreadable data (unreadable both by Hive and Presto) if a Hive table has a schema for which Presto only interprets some of the columns (e.g. due to unsupported data types). This is because the generated file on HDFS will not match the Hive table schema.

If called through JDBC, executeUpdate does not return the count of rows inserted.

Hive Parquet Issues

PARQUET support in Hive imposes more limitations than the other file types.

  • DATE and BINARY datatypes are not supported
  • Although``FLOAT`` column was mapped to DOUBLE through Presto the value for 123.345 was exposed as DOUBLE 123.345 in Presto.

PostgreSQL and MySQL Connectors Limitations

Known Bugs

PostgreSQL connector describe table reports Table has no supported column types inappropriately. https://github.com/facebook/presto/issues/4082

Security

Presto connects to MySQL and PostgreSQL using the credentials specified in the properties file. The credentials are used to authenticate the users while establishing the connection. Presto runs queries as the “presto” service user and does not pass down user information to MySQL or PostgreSQL connectors.

Datatypes

PostgreSQL and MySQL each support a wide variety of datatypes (PostgreSQL datatypes, MySQL datatypes). Many of these types are not supported in Presto. Table columns that are defined using an unsupported type are not visible to Presto users. These columns are not shown when describe table or select * SQL statements are executed.

CREATE TABLE

CREATE TABLE (...) does not work, but CREATE TABLE AS SELECT does.

INSERT INTO

INSERT INTO is not supported

DROP TABLE

DROP TABLE is not supported.

Limited SQL push-down

Presto does not “push-down” aggregate calculations to PostgreSQL or MySQL. This means that when a user executes a simple query such as SELECT COUNT(*) FROM lineitem the entire table will be retrieved and the aggregate calculated by Presto. If the table is large or the network slow, this may take a very long time.

MySQL Catalogs

MySQL catalog names are mapped to Presto schema names.

Teradata JDBC Driver

The Teradata JDBC driver does not support batch queries.