Charset conversion mysql-connector-j-8.0.31.jar #26

djamadeus · 2022-11-16T09:27:58Z

When reading data from virtual schema I get a converison-error from UTF8 to ASCII,. Reading directly from the jdbc-connection works though.

EXA_DB.VIRTUAL_JOINTDB_OFFICE> Select * from(
IMPORT FROM JDBC
AT MYSQL_JOINTDB_JDBC_CONNECTION
STATEMENT 'SELECT * from office.erstattungen_positionen limit 100')
[2022-11-16 10:13:59] 100 rows retrieved starting from 1 in 1 s 85 ms (execution: 1 s 53 ms, fetching: 32 ms)
EXA_DB.VIRTUAL_JOINTDB_OFFICE> Select * from virtual_jointDB_office."erstattungen_positionen" limit 100
[2022-11-16 10:21:58] [42636] ETL-3009: [Column=23 Row=0] [Charset conversion from 'UTF-8' to 'ASCII' failed [Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character]] (Session: 1749641517751205888).

On the Source-DB the charset is latin1 (yes i know :(, not my fault^^).

djamadeus · 2022-11-16T09:40:16Z

the column contains german letters like "Ü". The Problem here seems to be, that the virtual schema adapter gets latin1 fromt he column definition so it expects latin1, the mysql JDBC driver already converts this to utf-8 though.

Relativity74205 · 2022-11-16T10:54:42Z

We have a similar error message, however it is independent of the mysql driver version. However, going back to the previous virtual schema version (virtual-schema-dist-9.0.5-mysql-3.0.0.jar) solves the issue.

djamadeus · 2022-11-16T11:06:36Z

Jep switching back to 9.0.5 of the adapter script solved the issue for me as well

ckunki · 2022-11-21T11:03:40Z

Many thanks for reporting this issue. Please excuse that I answer only now. We will have a look at it.

ckunki · 2022-11-21T13:28:08Z

To summarize: version virtual-schema-dist-9.0.5-mysql-3.0.0.jar did not show the behavior described above while virtual-schema-dist-10.0.1-mysql-4.0.0.jar does so, right?

Hi @djamadeus could you please add the result of describing the table? (at least for one of the columns in question of being either ASCII / latin1 / or UTF-8)

In Exasol DB SQL you get this from DESCRIBE <schema>.<table-name>; with <schema> being the name of the virtual schema you created and <table-name> replaced by the name of your table, in total probably office.erstattungen_positionen, then.

After that I would like to exclude potential effects due to caching the schema description. We can do so by refreshing the virtual schema with ALTER VIRTUAL SCHEMA <schema> REFRESH; followed by an additional DESCRIBE <schema>.<table-name>;, see also https://docs.exasol.com/db/latest/sql/alter_schema.htm.

Based on that I will add more information.

djamadeus · 2022-11-23T08:29:59Z

@ckunki yes that only happens with version 10.0.1
Descripttion-result with 9.0.5-adapter:

COLUMN_NAME	SQL_TYPE
id	DECIMAL(10,0)
datum	TIMESTAMP
datum_ursprung	TIMESTAMP
userid	VARCHAR(16) ASCII
orderid	VARCHAR(32) ASCII
rekla_id	VARCHAR(10) ASCII
quelle	CHAR(15) ASCII
quelle_id	VARCHAR(15) ASCII
art	CHAR(19) ASCII
grund	VARCHAR(25) ASCII
mitarbeiter	VARCHAR(50) ASCII
bemerkung	VARCHAR(160) ASCII
artnr	VARCHAR(25) ASCII
sellid	VARCHAR(15) ASCII
bezeichnung	VARCHAR(50) ASCII
bezeichnung_zusatz	VARCHAR(50) ASCII
anzahl	DECIMAL(10,0)
einzelpreis	DECIMAL(8,2)
brutto_netto	CHAR(6) ASCII
steuersatz	DECIMAL(4,1)
datum_bestellung	TIMESTAMP
zahlungsart_bestellung	VARCHAR(32) ASCII
prioritaet	CHAR(6) ASCII
status	CHAR(11) ASCII
status_bemerkung	VARCHAR(160) ASCII
id_gutschrift	DECIMAL(10,0)

djamadeus · 2022-11-23T08:30:32Z

do you want me to test the refresh-flag with the 10 or 9.x adapter?

ckunki · 2022-11-23T09:13:02Z

Thank you very much for the additional information. Please apply the refresh for the new version 10.
Could please also tell me the version of the Exasol database you are using?

ckunki · 2022-11-23T10:53:43Z

Command DESCRIBE <schema>.<table-name>; shows that Exasol DB expects ASCII, which matches the error message above:
ETL-3009: [Charset conversion from 'UTF-8' to 'ASCII' failed [Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character]]. The prefix ETL- of the error code indicates the message being generated by the ExaLoader which is a core component of the database.

Could you help me to get insight into the perspective of the virtual schema adapter (another component different from ExaLoader)?

You can do so by using EXPLAIN VIRTUAL <sql command>;, see https://docs.exasol.com/db/latest/sql/explain_virtual.htm.
Please use the same SQL command that created the initial error message.

EXPLAIN VIRTUAL returns a table and if you could attach column "PUSHDOWN_SQL" to the current ticket, that will hopefully show which component indicated a UTF-8 encoding, which probably is incorrect and therefore cannot be converted to ASCII.

djamadeus · 2022-11-23T11:28:01Z

`
CREATE VIRTUAL SCHEMA virtual_jointDB_office_test
USING system_adapter_scripts.ADAPTER_SCRIPT_MYSQL
WITH
CONNECTION_NAME = 'MYSQL_JOINTDB_JDBC_CONNECTION'
CATALOG_NAME = 'office';

Select * from virtual_jointDB_office_test."erstattungen_positionen";
[42636] ETL-3009: [Column=23 Row=0] [Charset conversion from 'UTF-8' to 'ASCII' failed [Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character]] (Session: 1750109444829478912)

ALTER VIRTUAL SCHEMA virtual_jointDB_office_test REFRESH;

Select * from virtual_jointDB_office_test."erstattungen_positionen";
[Column=23 Row=0] [Charset conversion from 'UTF-8' to 'ASCII' failed [Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character]] (Session: 1750109444829478912)

explain virtual Select * from virtual_jointDB_office_test."erstattungen_positionen";
Pushdown_SQL:IMPORT INTO (c1 DECIMAL(10, 0), c2 TIMESTAMP, c3 TIMESTAMP, c4 VARCHAR(16) ASCII, c5 VARCHAR(32) ASCII, c6 VARCHAR(10) ASCII, c7 CHAR(15) ASCII, c8 VARCHAR(15) ASCII, c9 CHAR(19) ASCII, c10 VARCHAR(25) ASCII, c11 VARCHAR(50) ASCII, c12 VARCHAR(160) ASCII, c13 VARCHAR(25) ASCII, c14 VARCHAR(15) ASCII, c15 VARCHAR(50) ASCII, c16 VARCHAR(50) ASCII, c17 DECIMAL(10, 0), c18 DECIMAL(8, 2), c19 CHAR(6) ASCII, c20 DECIMAL(4, 1), c21 TIMESTAMP, c22 VARCHAR(32) ASCII, c23 CHAR(6) ASCII, c24 CHAR(11) ASCII, c25 VARCHAR(160) ASCII, c26 DECIMAL(10, 0)) FROM JDBC AT MYSQL_JOINTDB_JDBC_CONNECTION STATEMENT 'SELECT erstattungen_positionen.id, erstattungen_positionen.datum, erstattungen_positionen.datum_ursprung, erstattungen_positionen.userid, erstattungen_positionen.orderid, erstattungen_positionen.rekla_id, erstattungen_positionen.quelle, erstattungen_positionen.quelle_id, erstattungen_positionen.art, erstattungen_positionen.grund, erstattungen_positionen.mitarbeiter, erstattungen_positionen.bemerkung, erstattungen_positionen.artnr, erstattungen_positionen.sellid, erstattungen_positionen.bezeichnung, erstattungen_positionen.bezeichnung_zusatz, erstattungen_positionen.anzahl, erstattungen_positionen.einzelpreis, erstattungen_positionen.brutto_netto, erstattungen_positionen.steuersatz, erstattungen_positionen.datum_bestellung, erstattungen_positionen.zahlungsart_bestellung, erstattungen_positionen.prioritaet, erstattungen_positionen.status, erstattungen_positionen.status_bemerkung, erstattungen_positionen.id_gutschrift FROM office.erstattungen_positionen'`

djamadeus · 2022-11-23T11:31:10Z

when I run the pushdown command:
IMPORT INTO (c1 DECIMAL(10, 0), c2 TIMESTAMP, c3 TIMESTAMP, c4 VARCHAR(16) ASCII, c5 VARCHAR(32) ASCII, c6 VARCHAR(10) ASCII, c7 CHAR(15) ASCII, c8 VARCHAR(15) ASCII, c9 CHAR(19) ASCII, c10 VARCHAR(25) ASCII, c11 VARCHAR(50) ASCII, c12 VARCHAR(160) ASCII, c13 VARCHAR(25) ASCII, c14 VARCHAR(15) ASCII, c15 VARCHAR(50) ASCII, c16 VARCHAR(50) ASCII, c17 DECIMAL(10, 0), c18 DECIMAL(8, 2), c19 CHAR(6) ASCII, c20 DECIMAL(4, 1), c21 TIMESTAMP, c22 VARCHAR(32) ASCII, c23 CHAR(6) ASCII, c24 CHAR(11) ASCII, c25 VARCHAR(160) ASCII, c26 DECIMAL(10, 0)) FROM JDBC AT MYSQL_JOINTDB_JDBC_CONNECTION STATEMENT 'SELECT erstattungen_positionen.id, erstattungen_positionen.datum, erstattungen_positionen.datum_ursprung, erstattungen_positionen.userid, erstattungen_positionen.orderid, erstattungen_positionen.rekla_id, erstattungen_positionen.quelle, erstattungen_positionen.quelle_id, erstattungen_positionen.art, erstattungen_positionen.grund, erstattungen_positionen.mitarbeiter, erstattungen_positionen.bemerkung, erstattungen_positionen.artnr, erstattungen_positionen.sellid, erstattungen_positionen.bezeichnung, erstattungen_positionen.bezeichnung_zusatz, erstattungen_positionen.anzahl, erstattungen_positionen.einzelpreis, erstattungen_positionen.brutto_netto, erstattungen_positionen.steuersatz, erstattungen_positionen.datum_bestellung, erstattungen_positionen.zahlungsart_bestellung, erstattungen_positionen.prioritaet, erstattungen_positionen.status, erstattungen_positionen.status_bemerkung, erstattungen_positionen.id_gutschrift FROM office.erstattungen_positionen limit 100' [2022-11-23 12:30:26] [42636] ETL-3009: [Column=23 Row=0] [Charset conversion from 'UTF-8' to 'ASCII' failed [Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character]] (Session: 1750109444829478912)

djamadeus · 2022-11-23T11:33:00Z

If I counted right, the problem is erstattungen_positionen.prioritaet wich is an enum.
Probably always using UTF8 for enums in the newer adapter?

djamadeus · 2022-11-23T11:34:38Z

descriptiontable with vs-10.0.1-adapter:

COLUMN_NAME	SQL_TYPE	NULLABLE	DISTRIBUTION_KEY	PARTITION_KEY
id	DECIMAL(10,0)	NULL	NULL	NULL
datum	TIMESTAMP	NULL	NULL	NULL
datum_ursprung	TIMESTAMP	NULL	NULL	NULL
userid	VARCHAR(16) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
orderid	VARCHAR(32) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
rekla_id	VARCHAR(10) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
quelle	CHAR(15) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
quelle_id	VARCHAR(15) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
art	CHAR(19) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
grund	VARCHAR(25) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
mitarbeiter	VARCHAR(50) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
bemerkung	VARCHAR(160) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
artnr	VARCHAR(25) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
sellid	VARCHAR(15) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
bezeichnung	VARCHAR(50) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
bezeichnung_zusatz	VARCHAR(50) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
anzahl	DECIMAL(10,0)	NULL	NULL	NULL
einzelpreis	DECIMAL(8,2)	NULL	NULL	NULL
brutto_netto	CHAR(6) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
steuersatz	DECIMAL(4,1)	NULL	NULL	NULL
datum_bestellung	TIMESTAMP	NULL	NULL	NULL
zahlungsart_bestellung	VARCHAR(32) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
prioritaet	CHAR(6) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
status	CHAR(11) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
status_bemerkung	VARCHAR(160) ASCII	NULL	NULL	NULL
id_gutschrift	DECIMAL(10,0)	NULL	NULL	NULL

djamadeus · 2022-11-23T12:19:22Z

Exasol version is 7.1.15 btw

ckunki · 2022-11-23T12:40:14Z

Thank you very much for all the information. I am confident that this will enable us to find the correct answer and will come back in short.

djamadeus · 2022-11-23T14:12:45Z

My pleasure, Good Luck! :)

ckunki · 2022-11-23T14:16:14Z

If I counted right, the problem is erstattungen_positionen.prioritaet wich is an enum.

Thanks for this information. I counted the same and agree to your suspicion.
Enum is not among the generic JDBC base types but a proprietary extension of MySql. Looking at the output of EXPLAIN VIRTUAL and DESCRIBE TABLE JDBC seems to map this to CHAR(6).

As EXPLAIN VIRTUAL and DESCRIBE TABLE identically show datatype CHAR(6) ASCII and in combination with the prefix ETL-3009 of the error message we now assume ExaLoader to not only generate the error message but also to trigger the failed conversion.

If this holds true then the virtual schema adapter cannot influence this behavior.

The only thing that still makes me frown is that the current ticket reports a change of behavior from version virtual-schema-dist-9.0.5-mysql-3.0.0.jar to virtual-schema-dist-10.0.1-mysql-4.0.0.jar. Did you make the observations all with the same database version Exasol 7.1.15?

djamadeus · 2022-11-23T14:26:18Z

jep.
Using this as adapter on same DB works without problems:
CREATE OR REPLACE JAVA ADAPTER SCRIPT system_adapter_scripts.ADAPTER_SCRIPT_MYSQL_ASCII AS %scriptclass com.exasol.adapter.RequestDispatcher; %jar /buckets/bucketfs1/bucket1/virtual-schema-dist-9.0.5-mysql-3.0.0.jar; %jar /buckets/bucketfs1/bucket1/mysql-connector-j-8.0.31.jar; / ;
while this creates the reported behavior:
CREATE OR REPLACE JAVA ADAPTER SCRIPT system_adapter_scripts.ADAPTER_SCRIPT_MYSQL AS %scriptclass com.exasol.adapter.RequestDispatcher; %jar /buckets/bucketfs1/bucket1/virtual-schema-dist-10.0.1-mysql-4.0.0.jar; %jar /buckets/bucketfs1/bucket1/mysql-connector-j-8.0.31.jar; / ;
IN the changes to version 10 it says something about, not relying on analyzing the received data anymore but using the table meta-information instead...
That sounds a lot like the actual culprit to me ;)

ckunki · 2022-11-23T15:17:14Z

changes to version 10 ... using the table meta-information instead...
That sounds a lot like the actual culprit to me ;)

Thanks for mentioning that as this constantly goes through my mind, too.
I only now found out that this already has been backported to Exasol version 7.1.14. So yes, this is still a candidate.

What I am still wondering about: How could the information be different from what we get from DESCRIBE TABLE?
And actually we must assume that the meta-information includes an indication for UTF-8 while all the other places don't. Not mentioning any encoding would mean the same as UTF-8 is the default.

Would it be OK to ask for two additional log samples?

from the data base / ExaLoader
from the virtual schema and the meta-information

For (1) the relevant log files have names like *EtlJdbc_<etl_proc_num>_<job_num>*.
Here is an example for mapping a JDBC data type to Exasol:

2022-11-22 23:07:42.438 debu: Mapped Column: types[0]=93, internalTypes[0]=INTERNALTYPES_TIMESTAMP

For (2) see https://docs.exasol.com/db/latest/database_concepts/virtual_schema/logging.htm

djamadeus · 2022-11-23T17:05:50Z

How would I access the file from (1) ? running a community version instance here. no root access to that blackbox as far as I know

ckunki · 2022-11-24T16:34:29Z

Sorry for assuming you might be able to access these logs. In the meantime I could do some deeper experiments and I am close to a proof of our current assumption which is matching your initial diagnosis.

VSMYSQL version 3.x inspected only the data to detect the data type and got UTF-8 which is accepted by Exasol DB when importing UTF-8 encoded values.

VSMYSQL version 4.x inspects the metadata of the JDBC connection to detect the data type of each database column. In our case this is probably CHAR with octet length 1, i.e. 1 byte per character which is more or less correct for encoding latin1. VSMYSQL maps this to Exasol data type ASCII.

When retrieving actual values in a select statement the JDBC driver converts these character to UTF-8 and Exasol database reports an error as it cannot convert these data to data type ASCII.

The question is now how to overcome this.
I see the following options

(O1) continue to use the old version of the VSMYSQL
(O2) say that the German umlaut "Ü" is not strict "ASCII" and recommend to use UTF-8 encoding in MySQL
(O3) enhance VSMYSQL to support a parameter to always assume UTF-8
(O4) enhance VSMYSQL to support a parameter to ignore connection metadata for data type detection
(O5) Find a way to suppress JDBC driver to (silently) convert values to UTF-8

I will ponder these options and discuss with my colleagues.
Please tell me if you have a preference or if you see additional options.

djamadeus · 2022-11-24T17:15:20Z

Since detecting the type has worked flawlessly in the past, maybe having a parameter to fall back to the 3.x behaviour is best. I don't know the background why this was changed. Were there other issues with the old way, or is it "just" performance related? Thx for your efforts btw!

ckunki · 2022-11-25T08:41:59Z

Thanks for contact information and feeback.
BTW. the image was wrong - I replaced it 🥲

There were a number of reasons for the change in VSMYSQL:

Improved performance of queries to virtual schema by avoiding one query for each push down
Enhanced accuracy of data type mapping
Makes data type mapping simpler and easier to extend
Fixes wrong data types in some use cases
Supports additional use cases and correct data types in special situations

Also guessing the data types from the values in the result set appeared to be inappropriate and risky. Although, we must must admit, that in your special case the old behavior seems to be preferable. 😃

In the meanwhile we did some experiments with settings of the connection which did not change the behavior.

The bug filed for MySQL Connector J: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=69328, submitted: 27 May 2013, status Verified i.e. still open further narrows down the options ☹️.

In summary we are currently focusing option (O4) as proposed by you.

ckunki · 2022-11-30T12:58:53Z

To ensure correct understanding of the problem I investigated the behavior of the MySQL JDBC driver:

CREATE TABLE T (c1 CHAR(1), c2  ENUM('A', 'Ü')) CHARACTER SET latin1;
INSERT INTO T VALUES ('Ü', 'Ü');

The following results have been retrieved by using the MySQL JDBC driver com.mysql:mysql-connector-j:8.0.31.

Column Metadata for MySQL table 'T' provided by JDBC driver:

Column ‘c1': from adapter notes: { JdbcDataType = 1 (CHAR), typeName = 'CHAR' }, type = CHAR(1) ASCII.
Column 'c2': from adapter notes: { JdbcDataType = 1 (CHAR), typeName = 'ENUM' }, type = CHAR(1) ASCII.

Column descriptions from query select * from T, as provided by JDBC driver: c1 CHAR(1) UTF8, c2 CHAR(1) UTF8.

I will also enhance the integration tests of VSMYSQL to reproduce this output.

…aracters not strictly ASCII.

* updated version, pk fix, artifact references and added documentation * #26: Enabled to use MySQL database with character set `latin1` and characters not strictly ASCII. * updated to latest PR of VSCJDBC * removed repository maven.exasol.com * upgraded to exasol-testcontainers 6.4.0 * excluded vulnerablity Co-authored-by: Christoph Pirkl <christoph.pirkl@exasol.com>

djamadeus · 2022-12-05T12:25:46Z

glad to see this fixed. thanks alot!

djamadeus · 2022-12-06T09:49:26Z

btw same some problem occurs with postgres adapter...

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