v2.22.1

Bug Fixes

• issue a warning if buggy pyarrow is detected (#787) (e403721)
• use a larger chunk size when loading data (#799) (b804373)

Documentation

• add Samples section to CONTRIBUTING.rst (#785) (e587029)
• add sample to delete job metadata (#798) (be9b242)

v2.22.0

Features

• add LoadJobConfig.projection_fields to select DATASTORE_BACKUP fields (#736) (c45a738)
• add standard sql table type, update scalar type enums (#777) (b8b5433)
• add support for more detailed DML stats (#758) (36fe86f)
• add support for user defined Table View Functions (#724) (8c7b839)

Bug Fixes

• avoid possible job already exists error (#751) (45b9308)

Dependencies

• allow 2.x versions of google-api-core, google-cloud-core, google-resumable-media (#770) (87a09fa)

Documentation

• add loading data from Firestore backup sample (#737) (22fd848)

v2.21.0

2.21.0 (2021-07-13)

Features

• Add max_results parameter to some of the QueryJob methods. (#698) (2a9618f)
• Add support for decimal target types. (#735) (7d2d3e9)
• Add support for table snapshots. (#740) (ba86b2a)
• Enable unsetting policy tags on schema fields. (#703) (18bb443)
• Make it easier to disable best-effort deduplication with streaming inserts. (#734) (1246da8)
• Support passing struct data to the DB API. (#718) (38b3ef9)

Bug Fixes

• Inserting non-finite floats with insert_rows(). (#728) (d047419)
• Use pandas function to check for NaN. (#750) (67bc5fb)

Documentation

• Add docs for all enums in module. (#745) (145944f)
• Omit mention of Python 2.7 in CONTRIBUTING.rst. (#706) (27d6839)

v2.20.0

Features

• support script options in query job config (#690) (1259e16)

v2.19.0

Features

• list_tables, list_projects, list_datasets, list_models, list_routines, and list_jobs now accept a page_size parameter to control page size (#686) (1f1c4b7)

v2.18.0

Features

• add support for Parquet options (#679) (d792ce0)

v2.17.0

Features

• detect obsolete BQ Storage extra at runtime (#666) (bd7dbda)
• Support parameterized NUMERIC, BIGNUMERIC, STRING, and BYTES types (#673) (45421e7)

Bug Fixes

• tests: invalid path to strptime() (#672) (591cdd8)

v2.16.1

Bug Fixes

• executemany rowcount only reflected the last execution (#660) (aeadc8c)

v2.16.0

Features

• add with_name() to ScalarQueryParameterType (#644) (6cc6876)

Dependencies

• expand supported pyarrow versions to v4 (#643) (9e1d386)

v2.15.0

Features

• Extended DB API parameter syntax to optionally provide parameter types (#626) (8bcf397)

Bug Fixes

• add DECIMAL and BIGDECIMAL as aliases for NUMERIC and BIGNUMERIC (#638) (aa59023)
• The DB API Binary function accepts bytes data (#630) (4396e70)