Aiven for ClickHouse^® upgraded to 23.8

Aiven for ClickHouse® has been upgraded to version 23.8, which contains new features and a variety of fixes on top of release 23.3. See ClickHouse release notes for all the details on what release 23.8 introduces.

Key new features

• Updated list of table functions and engines supported in Aiven for ClickHouse®
• New capabilities for data ingestion, such as input_format_csv_allow_variable_number_of_columns or s3_skip_empty_files and engine_url_skip_empty_files for skipping empty files in s3 and url table functions
• Improvements for working with metadata and .parquet files in particular, such as faster reads and count operations

Bug fixes

• Fixes improving security
• Fixes improving performance