snowflake-connector-python 3.1.0a1

Release

on Python PyPI

Version 3.1.0a1 is our first efforts to build snowflake-connector-python based on apache nanoarrow project, which reduces the package size as well as removes a hard dependency on a specific version of pyarrow. This version also includes the following features and bug fixes from the unreleased v3.0.5:

New Features and Improvements

• Added a feature that lets you add connection definitions to the config.toml configuration file. A connection definition refers to a collection of connection parameters. The connection configuration name must begin with connections, similar to the following that defines the parameters for the prod connection:

    [connections.prod]
    account = "my_account"
    user = "my_user"
    password = "my_password"

  By default, we look for the config.toml file in the location specified in the SNOWFLAKE_HOME environment variable (default: ~/.snowflake). If this folder does not exist, the Python connector looks for the file in the platformdirs location, as follows:

  • On Linux: ~/.config/snowflake/, but follows XDG settings
  • On Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/snowflake/
  • On Windows: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\snowflake\

  You can determine which file is used by running the following command:

  python -c "from snowflake.connector.constants import CONFIG_FILE; print(str(CONFIG_FILE))"
  

• Bumped cryptography dependency from <41.0.0,>=3.1.0 to >=3.1.0,<42.0.0.

• Allowed to pass type_mapper to fetch_pandas_batches() and fetch_pandas_all().

• Added a parameter server_session_keep_alive in SnowflakeConnection that skips session deletion when client connection closes.

• Added retry reason for queries that are retried by the client.

• Improved error handling of connection reset error.

• Improved OCSP response caching to remove tmp cache files on Windows.

• Improved OCSP response caching to reduce the times of disk writing.

• Tightened our pinning of platformdirs, to prevent their new releases breaking us.

• Remove Python 3.7 support.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where SFPlatformDirs would incorrectly append application_name/version to its path.
• Fixed a bug where write_pandas fails when user does not have the privilege to create stage or file format in the target schema, but has the right privilege for the current schema.
• Fixed a bug about deleting the temporary files happened when running PUT command.
• Fixed a bug where pickle.dump segfaults during cache serialization in multi-threaded scenarios.
• Worked around a segfault which sometimes occurred during cache serialization in multi-threaded scenarios.