Deprecated and removed functionality

Vertica retires functionality in two phases:.

Vertica retires functionality in two phases:

  • Deprecated: Vertica announces deprecated features and functionality in a major or minor release. Deprecated features remain in the product and are functional. Published release documentation announces deprecation on this page. When users access this functionality, it may return informational messages about its pending removal.

  • Removed: Vertica removes a feature in a major or minor release that follows the deprecation announcement. Users can no longer access the functionality, and this page is updated to verify removal (see History, below). Documentation that describes this functionality is removed, but remains in previous documentation versions.

Deprecated

The following functionality was deprecated and will be removed in future versions:

Release Functionality Notes
24.2 OAuth2JITClient security parameter. Use OAuth2JITRolesClaimName instead.
24.2

The following Helm chart parameters:

  • logging.maxFileSize
  • logging.maxFileAge
  • logging.filePath
  • logging.maxFileRotation

Removed

History

The following functionality or support has been deprecated or removed as indicated:

Functionality Component Deprecated in: Removed in:
OAuth2JITClient security parameter. Server 24.2.0

The following Helm chart parameters:

  • logging.maxFileSize
  • logging.maxFileAge
  • logging.filePath
  • logging.maxFileRotation
 Kubernetes 24.2.0

The following JDBC and ODBC connection properties:

  • OAuthRefreshToken/oauthrefreshtoken
  • OAuthClientSecret/oauthclientsecret
  • oauthtruststorepath (JDBC only)
  • oauthtruststorepassword (JDBC only)
 Client drivers 24.1.0
Integration with the Linux logrotate utility Server 24.1.0
v1beta1 VerticaDB custom resource definition API version Kubernetes 23.4.0
serviceAccountNameOverride Helm chart parameter Kubernetes 23.4.0 24.1.0
skipRoleAndRoleBindingCreation Helm chart parameter Kubernetes 23.4.0 24.1.0
spec.communal.kerberosRealm VerticaDB custom resource definition parameter Kubernetes 23.4.0 24.1.0
spec.communal.kerberosServiceName VerticaDB custom resource definition parameter Kubernetes 23.4.0 24.1.0
spec.temporarySubclusterRouting VerticaDB custom resource definition parameter Kubernetes 23.4.0 24.1.0
Vertica Kubernetes (No keys) image Kubernetes 23.4.0 24.1.0
Vertica Kubernetes admintools support Kubernetes 23.4.0 24.1.0
Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.x (Red Hat compatible kernels only) Supported platforms 23.4.0 24.1.0
Oracle Enterprise Linux 7.x (Red Hat compatible kernels only) Supported platforms 23.4.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x (RHEL 7) support Supported platforms 23.4.0 24.1.0

The following log search tokenizers:

  • v_txtindex.AdvancedLogTokenizer
  • v_txtindex.BasicLogTokenizer
  • v_txtindex.WhitespaceLogTokenizer
  • logWordITokenizerPositionFactory and logWordITokenizerFactory from the v_txtindex.logSearchLib library
 Server 23.4.0 24.1.0
DHParams Server 23.3.0
OAuthJsonConfig and oauthjsonconfig Client drivers 23.3.0
Visual Studio 2012, 2013, and 2015 plug-ins and the Microsoft Connectivity Pack Client drivers 12.0.4 23.3.0
ADO.NET driver support for .NET 3.5 Client drivers 12.0.3
prometheus.createServiceMonitor Helm chart parameter Kubernetes 12.0.3
webhook.caBundle Helm chart parameter Kubernetes 12.0.3 24.1.0
cert-manager for Helm chart TLS configuration Kubernetes 12.0.2 23.3.0
Use webhook.certSource parameter to generate certificates internally or provide custom certificates. See Helm chart parameters. Kubernetes 12.0.2

The following Kafka user-defined session parameters:

  • kafka_SSL_CA

  • kafka_SSL_Certificate

  • kafka_SSL_PrivateKey_Secret

  • kafka_SSL_PrivateKeyPassword_secret

  • kafka_Enable_SSL

 Kafka 12.0.3
vsql support for macOS 10.12-10.14 Client drivers 12.0.3
CA bundles Security 12.0.2

The following parameters for CREATE NOTIFIER and ALTER NOTIFIER:

  • TLSMODE

  • CA BUNDLE

  • CERTIFICATE

 Security 12.0.2
The TLSMODE PREFER parameter for CONNECT TO VERTICA. Security 12.0.2
JDBC 4.0 and 4.1 support Client drivers 12.0.2 23.4.0
Support for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 plug-ins Client drivers 12.0.2 12.0.3
Internet Explorer 11 support Management Console 12.0.1
ODBC support for macOS 10.12-10.14 Client drivers 12.0

The following ODBC/JDBC OAuth parameters:

  • OAuthAccessToken/oauthaccesstoken

  • OAuthRefreshToken/oauthrefreshtoken

  • OAuthClientId/oauthclientid

  • OAuthClientSecret/oauthclientsecret

  • OAuthTokenUrl/oauthtokenurl

  • OAuthDiscoveryUrl/oauthdiscoveryurl

  • OAuthScope/oauthscope

 Client drivers 12.0
hive_partition_cols parameter for PARQUET and ORC parsers Server 12.0

The following ODBC/JDBC OAuth parameters:

  • OAuthAccessToken/oauthaccesstoken

  • OAuthRefreshToken/oauthrefreshtoken

  • OAuthClientId/oauthclientid

  • OAuthClientSecret/oauthclientsecret

  • OAuthTokenUrl/oauthtokenurl

  • OAuthDiscoveryUrl/oauthdiscoveryurl

  • OAuthScope/oauthscope

 Client drivers 12.0
INFER_EXTERNAL_TABLE_DDL function Server 11.1.1
Admission Controller Webhook image Kubernetes 11.0.1 11.0.2
Admission Controller Helm chart Kubernetes 11.0.1
Shared DATA and DATA,TEMP storage locations Server 11.0.1
DESIGN_ALL option for EXPORT_CATALOG() Server 11.0
HDFSUseWebHDFS configuration parameter and LibHDFS++ Server 11.0
INFER_EXTERNAL_TABLE_DDL (path, table) syntax Server 11.0 11.1.1

AWS library functions:

  • AWS_GET_CONFIG

  • AWS_SET_CONFIG

  • S3EXPORT

  • S3EXPORT_PARTITION

 Server 11.0 12.0
Vertica Spark connector V1 Client 11.0
admintools db_add_subcluster --is-secondary argument Server 11.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 6.x Server 10.1.1 11.0
STRING_TO_ARRAY(array,delimiter) syntax Server 10.1.1
Vertica JDBC API com.vertica.jdbc.kv package Client Drivers 10.1
ARRAY_CONTAINS function Server 10.1

Client-server TLS parameters:

  • SSLCertificate

  • SSLPrivateKey

  • SSLCA

  • EnableSSL

LDAP authentication parameters:

  • tls_key

  • tls_cert

  • tls_cacert

  • tls_reqcert

LDAPLink and LDAPLink dry-run parameters:

  • LDAPLinkTLSCACert

  • LDAPLinkTLSCADir

  • LDAPLinkStartTLS

  • LDAPLinkTLSReqCert

 Server 10.1 11.0
MD5 hashing algorithm for user passwords Server 10.1
Reading structs from ORC files as expanded columns Server 10.1 11.0
vbr configuration section [S3] and S3 configuration parameters Server 10.1
flatten_complex_type_nulls parameter to the ORC and Parquet parsers Server 10.1 11.0
System table WOS_CONTAINER_STORAGE Server 10.0.1 11.0.2
skip_strong_schema_match parameter to the Parquet parser Server 10.0.1 10.1
Specifying segmentation on specific nodes Server 10.0.1
DBD meta-function DESIGNER_SET_ANALYZE_CORRELATIONS_MODE Server 10.0.1 11.0.1
Meta-function ANALYZE_CORRELATIONS Server 10.0
Eon Mode meta-function BACKGROUND_DEPOT_WARMING Server 10.0
Reading structs from Parquet files as expanded columns Server 10.0 10.1

Eon Mode meta-functions:

  • SET_DEPOT_PIN_POLICY

  • CLEAR_DEPOT_PIN_POLICY

 Server 10.0 10.1
vbr configuration parameter SnapshotEpochLagFailureThreshold Server 10.0

Array-specific functions:

  • array_min

  • array_max

  • array_sum

  • array_avg

 Server 10.0 10.1
DMLTargetDirect configuration parameter Server 10.0
HiveMetadataCacheSizeMB configuration parameter Server 10.0 10.1
MoveOutInterval Server 10.0
MoveOutMaxAgeTime Server 10.0
MoveOutSizePct Server 10.0
Windows 7 Client Drivers 9.3.1
DATABASE_PARAMETERS admintools command Server 9.3.1
Write-optimized store (WOS) Server 9.3 10.0
7.2_upgrade vbr task Server 9.3
DropFailedToActivateSubscriptions configuration parameter Server 9.3 10.0
--skip-fs-checks Server 9.2.1
32-bit ODBC Linux and OS X client drivers Client 9.2.1 9.3
Vertica Python client Client 9.2.1 10.0
macOS 10.11 Client 9.2.1
DisableDirectToCommunalStorageWrites configuration parameter Server 9.2.1
CONNECT_TO_VERTICA meta-function Server 9.2.1 9.3
ReuseDataConnections configuration parameter Server 9.2.1 9.3
Network interfaces (superseded by network addresses) Server 9.2
Database branching Server 9.2 10.0
KERBEROS_HDFS_CONFIG_CHECK meta-function Server 9.2
Java 5 support JDBC Client 9.2 9.2.1

Configuration parameters for enabling projections with aggregated data:

  • EnableExprsInProjections

  • EnableGroupByProjections

  • EnableTopKProjections

  • EnableUDTProjections

 Server 9.2
DISABLE_ELASTIC_CLUSTER() Server 9.1.1 11.0
eof_timeout parameter of KafkaSource Server 9.1.1 9.2
Windows Server 2012 Server 9.1.1
Debian 7.6, 7.7 Client driver 9.1.1 9.2.1
IdolLib function library Server 9.1 9.1.1
SSL certificates that contain weak CA signatures such as MD5 Server 9.1
HCatalogConnectorUseLibHDFSPP configuration parameter Server 9.1
S3 UDSource Server 9.1 9.1.1
HCatalog Connector support for WebHCat Server 9.1
partition_key column in system tables STRATA and STRATA_STRUCTURES Server 9.1 10.0.1
Vertica Pulse Server 9.0.1 9.1.1
Support for SQL Server 2008 Server 9.0.1 9.0.1
SUMMARIZE_MODEL meta-function Server 9.0 9.1
RestrictSystemTable parameter Server 9.0.1
S3EXPORT multipart parameter Server 9.0
EnableStorageBundling configuration parameter Server 9.0
Machine Learning for Predictive Analytics package parameter key_columns for data preparation functions. Server 9.0 9.0.1
DROP_PARTITION meta-function, superseded by DROP_PARTITIONS Server 9.0
Machine Learning for Predictive Analytics package parameter owner. Server 8.1.1 9.0
Backup and restore --setupconfig command Server 8.1 9.1.1
SET_RECOVER_BY_TABLE meta-function. Do not disable recovery by table. Server 8.0.1
Column rebalance_projections_status.duration_sec Server 8.0
HDFS Connector Server 8.0 9.0
Prejoin projections Server 8.0 9.2
Administration Tools option --compat21 Server 7.2.1
admin_tools -t config_nodes Server 7.2 11.0.1
Projection buddies with inconsistent sort order Server 7.2 9.0
backup.sh Server 7.2 9.0
restore.sh Server 7.2 9.0
copy_vertica_database.sh Server 7.2
JavaClassPathForUDx configuration parameter Server 7.1
ADD_LOCATION meta-function Server 7.1
bwlimit configuration parameter Server 7.1 9.0
vbr configuration parameters retryCount and retryDelay Server 7.1 11.0
EXECUTION_ENGINE_PROFILE counters: file handles, memory allocated Server 7.0 9.3
EXECUTION_ENGINE_PROFILES counter memory reserved Server 7.0
MERGE_PARTITIONS() meta-function Server 7.0

krb5 client authentication method

 All clients 7.0
range-segmentation-clause Server 6.1.1 9.2
scope parameter of meta-function CLEAR_PROFILING Server 6.1
Projection creation type IMPLEMENT_TEMP_DESIGN Server, clients 6.1