"Execute SQL" strips newlines

[remisture]

Details for the issue

There seems to be an issue with newlines in the "Execute SQL" feature. If I have more than one, they get stripped out. It seems to work as expected when going through "Browse data" -> "New record".

Any idea how I can get around this problem until a fix is released? (I have hundreds of thousands records I need to import, so manual typing is not an option).

Useful extra information

I'm opening this issue because:

• DB4S is crashing
• DB4S has a bug
• DB4S needs a feature
• DB4S has another problem

I'm using DB4S on:

• Windows: ( version: ___ )
• Linux: ( distro: ___ )
• Mac OS: ( version: ___ )
• Other: ___

I'm using DB4S version:

• 3.10.1
• 3.10.0
• 3.9.1
• Other: 3.10.99

I have also:

• Tried out the latest nightly version: https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser#nightly-builds
• Searched for an existing similar issue: https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20

[chrisjlocke]

Have you tried the latest nightly version? I see you've ticked the 'I've tried the nightly version', but in my nightly version, this works OK...

I suspect its more of an OS related thingy though, which is never a good sign...
But before we trundled down that road, just wanted to make sure.

[remisture]

Yes, the same issue is in the nightly version.

MacOS 10.13.4 Beta. I know this has worked ok before, so it sure sounds like an OS related thingy.

[chrisjlocke]

Thanks for replying back and confirming.

[mgrojo]

I can reproduce it under Ubuntu 16.04.

This is probably related to issue #1270

In fact, this:

INSERT INTO "Manuel's"("my column") VALUES ('
-- Hello
-- World
');

becomes:

Query executed successfully: INSERT INTO "Manuel's"("my column") VALUES ('
') (took 0ms, 1 rows affected)

[mgrojo]

@remisture Is this a workaround for you?

INSERT INTO "Manuel's"("my column") VALUES ('This is some text:
' || '
- List item
- This is another item
' || '
More text here');

Just placing a space at the empty lines would also work.

I hope it helps.

[mgrojo]

@remisture I've made a change that should fix at least the simple cases like the one you have reported. If there are comments, or something that we mistake with comments, in the query, it might still remove your line breaks. Could you try with the next nightly build, when it is available, and report your results?

[remisture]

@mgrojo Thank you, I will try the next nightly build :)

Sadly I'm not able to use your workaround, as I don't control the queries (exported from another system). Thanks anyway.

[remisture]

I can confirm that Version 3.10.99 (Mar 6 2018) works. Thank you very much!

[MKleusberg]

Going to close this issue then because the original problem was solved a while ago and the more complex problem behind it was solved in #1455 a few days ago. If you feel like I closed this issue to early, feel free to reopen it anytime with some details on what still needs be improved 😄

[remisture]

When is this released? I'm in a situation now where the stable version has this bug, and the nightly version can't export to SQL file :/ Well, I guess I can import with the nightly and export with the stable 💃

Ref. #1476

[justinclift]

As a thought, if you grab the nightly from Mar 6, that might not have this crash bug with the SQL export.

The multi-threading stuff we've been working on, which might be behind this crash, was added in May with 51dbe72. If that does turn out to be the cause, then grabbing one of the builds before that should do the trick too. 😄