greenplum-db-6.2.1-rhel7-x86_64.rpm


Pivotal Greenplum 6.2 Release Notes
This document contains pertinent release information about Pivotal Greenplum Database 6.2 releases. For previous versions of the release notes for Greenplum Database, go to Pivotal Greenplum Database Documentation. For information about Greenplum Database end of life, see Pivotal Greenplum Database end of life policy.

Pivotal Greenplum 6 software is available for download from the Pivotal Greenplum page on Pivotal Network.

Pivotal Greenplum 6 is based on the open source Greenplum Database project code.

Important: Pivotal Support does not provide support for open source versions of Greenplum Database. Only Pivotal Greenplum Database is supported by Pivotal Support.
Release 6.2.1
Release Date: 2019-12-12

Pivotal Greenplum 6.2.1 is a minor release that includes new features and resolves several issues.

New Features
Greenplum Database 6.2.1 includes these new features:

Greenplum Database supports materialized views. Materialized views are similar to views. A materialized view enables you to save a frequently used or complex query, then access the query results in a SELECT statement as if they were a table. Materialized views persist the query results in a table-like form. Materialized view data cannot be directly updated. To refresh the materialized view data, use the REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW command. See Creating and Managing Materialized Views.
Note: Known Issues and Limitations describes a limitation of materialized view support in Greenplum 6.2.1.
The gpinitsystem utility supports the --ignore-warnings option. The option controls the value returned by gpinitsystem when warnings or an error occurs. If you specify this option, gpinitsystem returns 0 if warnings occurred during system initialization, and returns a non-zero value if a fatal error occurs. If this option is not specified, gpinitsystem returns 1 if initialization completes with warnings, and returns value