Beta Release 2016-05-26

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What's new in CockroachDB beta-20160526   May 26, 2016   Backwards-Incompatible Changes Numeric literals containing a decimal point are now treated as type DECIMALinstead of type FLOAT, unless type inference determines that FLOAT should be used. In some cases, an explicit CAST(x AS FLOAT) may be needed. #6752 The custom error codes CR000 (indicating a transaction needs to be retried) andCR001 (indicating a transaction is in an invalid state) have been replaced with the PostgreSQL standard error codes 40001 (serialization failure) and 25000 (invalid transaction state), respectively. #6797 Bug Fixes Fixed problems when tables are renamed or dropped and recreated in rapid succession. #6595 DROP DATABASE now works correctly with quoted names. #6851 Gracefully shutting down a node now completes faster. #6777 INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING no longer crashes the server when no conflicting index is given. #6795 INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING now requires only the INSERTpermission instead of both INSERT and UPDATE. #6827 Numeric literals in scientific notation are now case-insensitive. #6864 TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE is now recognized as a synonym forTIMESTAMP. #6888 Attempting to access a database that does not exist now returns PostgreSQL error code 3D000 (“invalid catalog name”) instead of a generic error. #6680 Internal Changes Most of the /_status/ HTTP endpoints now use GRPC internally. #6702 #6788 The cockroach exterminate command (which did not work) has been removed. #6780 Garbage collection now retains the first value outside the configured interval, since it was the current value at the start of the interval. #6778 Doc Updates Docs on the INSERT statement are now available. #308 Docs on the UPSERT statement are now available. #308 Contributors This release includes 58 merged PRs by 16 authors. We would like to thank the following contributor from the CockroachDB community: Kenji Kaneda   Cheers,  The Cockroach Labs Team