Go Snowflake Driver release notes for 2024¶

Implemented support for structured types (structured objects, arrays, and maps).

Added an option to skip driver registration during startup.

Added the SECURITY.md file so customers can review Snowflake’s security policy.

Added the ability to set custom logger fields.

Fixed an issue with closing the error channel twice when using async mode.

Fixed a race condition when accessing temporal credentials.

Upgraded to Arrow version 15.

Added support for the WithHigherPrecision context in Arrow batches mode.

Added date and time converter from the Snowflake format to the Golang format.

Added a context that replaces UTF-8 characters in Arrow responses.

Fixed an issue with with handling unavailable Amazon S3 accelerated configuration when transferring files.

Fixed an issue with dividing big numbers in Arrow mode.

Fixed a data racing issue during logging initialization.

Fixed an issue where results were not downloaded when the first batch was missing in a response.

Fixed an issue with the backoff retry period for non-authenticated requests.

Fixed an issue where zombie DBus processes were not terminated when a program ended.

Added support for multiple SAML integrations.

Added support for second, millisecond, and microsecond precision for arrow batch timestamps.

Fixed an issue with WithFetchResultByID by checking for the queryInProgressAsyncCode response code when fetching results.

Fixed an issue where OKTA authentication failed when receiving an HTTP 429 error.

Fixed an issue where the driver incorrectly returned an error for empty arrow batches.

Added support for Go version 1.21.

Upgraded the arrow library to version v14.

Updated the jose2go and crypto dependencies.

Allow clients to set the QUERY_TAG parameter via context.

Standardized using the same http.Transport for all cloud providers.

Added an example showing how to insert data into VARIANT and OBJECT columns using variable binding.

Fixed the following issues relating to error handling:

• The driver now propagates errors when file upload errors occur.

• The driver now propagates errors that occur during chunk downloading.

• The driver does not start chunk downloading when an error occurs with the first chunk download.

Fixed an issue where the driver tried to read an empty chunk, when arrow_batches mode is enabled.

Removed retry attempts for HTTP 400 and 405 statuses.

Fixed an issue with unexpected errors that occurred during S3 HEAD calls.

Fixed the GET example in documentation.