0.2.1 Preview Release

This is a preview release of DuckDB. Binary builds are listed below. Feedback is very welcome. Major changes:

Engine

• #770: Enable Inter-Pipeline Parallelism
• #835: Type system updates with #779: INTERVAL Type, #858: Fixed-precision DECIMAL types & #819: HUGEINT type
• #790: Parquet write support

API

• #866: Initial Arrow support
• #809: Aggregate UDF support with #843: Generic CreateAggregateFunction() & #752: CreateVectorizedFunction() using only template parameters

SQL

• #824: strftime and strptime
• #858: EXPORT DATABASE and IMPORT DATABASE
• #832: read_csv(_auto) improvements: optional parameters, configurable sample size, line number info