What's Changed

Exciting New Features ✨

• feat: add alter table sql smith impl by @lichuang in #13251
• feat: add table function fuse_encoding by @SkyFan2002 in #13264
• feat: copyIntoTable from csv decode EMPTY as table default_expr. by @youngsofun in #13277

Thoughtful Bug Fix 🔧

• fix: update panic when contain window func by @zhyass in #13259
• fix: resolve push down's expr using DataSchema by @andylokandy in #13039
• fix: do not reuse expr when function are if by @ariesdevil in #13271

Documentation 📔

• docs: sql identifiers updates by @soyeric128 in #13273

Others 📒

• chore: remove useless type param from kv_api by @drmingdrmer in #13265
• chore(query): refine hash join finalize by @Dousir9 in #13266
• chore: using loop to impl retry for meta-grpc client kv_api() by @drmingdrmer in #13268
• chore: refactor meta grpc service by @drmingdrmer in #13278

Full Changelog: https://github.com/datafuselabs/databend/compare/v1.2.161-nightly...v1.2.162-nightly