What is MariaDB 10.3?

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MariaDB 10.3 will be the next major development version. There are currently no releases. MariaDB 10.2 is the current major development version and, being a release candidate, is mostly feature-complete, so major new features will be going into 10.3.

The following lists the major new features in MariaDB 10.3:

Implemented Features

Syntax / general features

Compatibility

  • sql_mode=ORACLE: Providing compatibility for basic PL/SQL constructs - MDEV-10411
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: %TYPE in variable declarations - MDEV-10577
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: cursor%ROWTYPE in variable declarations - MDEV-12011
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: table%ROWTYPE in variable declarations - MDEV-12133
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: FOR loop statement - MDEV-10580
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: Implicit cursor FOR loop - MDEV-12098
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: Explicit cursor FOR LOOP - MDEV-10581
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: Cursors with parameters - MDEV-10597
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: Implicit cursor FOR LOOP for cursors with parameters - MDEV-12314
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: Explicit cursor attributes %ISOPEN, %ROWCOUNT, %FOUND, %NOTFOUND - MDEV-10582
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: SQL%ROWCOUNT - MDEV-10583
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: Variable declarations can go after cursor declarations - MDEV-10598
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: Predefined exceptions: TOO_MANY_ROWS, NO_DATA_FOUND, DUP_VAL_ON_INDEX - MDEV-10839
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: RAISE statement for predefined exceptions - MDEV-10840
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: User defined exceptions - MDEV-10587
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: SP control functions SQLCODE, SQLERRM - MDEV-10578
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: Triggers: Understand :NEW.c1 and :OLD.c1 instead of NEW.c1 and OLD.c1 - MDEV-10579
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: Dynamic SQL placeholders - MDEV-10801
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: Allow VARCHAR and VARCHAR2 without length as a data type of routine parameters and in RETURN clause - MDEV-10596
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: CAST(..AS VARCHAR(N)) - MDEV-11275
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: Anonymous blocks - MDEV-10655
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: GOTO statement - MDEV-10697
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: Allow SELECT UNIQUE as a synonym for SELECT DISTINCT - MDEV-12086
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: Do not require BEGIN..END in multi-statement exception handlers in THEN clause - MDEV-12088
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: Understand optional routine name after the END keyword - MDEV-12089
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: Inside routines the CALL keywoard is optional - MDEV-12107
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: Make the concatenation operator ignore NULL arguments - MDEV-11880
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: make the CONCAT function ignore NULL arguments - MDEV-12143
  • sql_mode=ORACLE: TRUNCATE TABLE t1 [ {DROP|REUSE} STORAGE ] - MDEV-10588

Data types

  • The GEOMETRY data type is not allowed any more:
    • as an argument to functions ABS(), CEILING, FLOOR, SUM(), AVG(), VARIANCE(), CAST(AS..), as well as to the unary minus operator - MDEV-12303, MDEV-12239, MDEV-12199, MDEV-12001
    • as an argument to hybrid functions such as CASE, COALESCE, IF which have other arguments of the numeric or temporal data types - MDEV-11478
    • as an argument to comparison operators in combination with numeric and temporal data types - MDEV-11692

Other changes

  • SP variables of temporal data types do not replicate correctly - MDEV-11815

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