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Wrong typecast on character columns in prepared statements when using Umlaute #3930

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monetdb-team opened this issue Nov 30, 2020 · 0 comments
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Date: 2016-02-24 17:02:08 +0100
From: Arno Mittelbach <<arno.mittelbach>>
To: SQL devs <>
Version: 11.21.13 (Jul2015-SP2)

Last updated: 2016-03-25 09:59:12 +0100

Comment 21818

Date: 2016-02-24 17:02:08 +0100
From: Arno Mittelbach <<arno.mittelbach>>

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There seems to be a strange problem regarding prepared queries with Umlaute (e.g., ä). It seems that the rule for type casting strings correspond to the length of the string. The problem is
that an Umlaut seems to count for two "normal" characters. Here is an example. Consider the following simple table:

create table A (a varchar(4));

Now if we create a prepared statement (ultimately I want to do this from Java) such as

prepare select * from A where a = ?;

we can execute the statement and supply 4 characters as the argument:

exec 3('1234');

This works fine. However, if I am using an Umlaut within the parameter, then things don't work out. For example

exec 4('ä123');

fails with the following error message

EXEC: wrong type for argument 1 of prepared statement: char, expected varchar

However, if I now shorten the parameter by "1" character, it works again. That is,

exec 5('ä12');

is ok.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. create table A (a varchar(4));
  2. prepare select * from A where a = ?;
  3. exec 2('ä123');

Actual Results:

EXEC: wrong type for argument 1 of prepared statement: char, expected varchar

Expected Results:

No error

Comment 21824

Date: 2016-02-25 17:36:57 +0100
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>

Changeset 58c81fe1e454 made by Sjoerd Mullender sjoerd@acm.org in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see http//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=58c81fe1e454

Changeset description:

When parsing a string in SQL, record the number of Unicode code points, not bytes.
This fixes bug #3930.
Also added test.

Comment 21828

Date: 2016-02-26 14:49:06 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

Fixed by counting properly.

Comment 21956

Date: 2016-03-25 09:59:12 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

Jul2015-SP3 has been released.

@monetdb-team monetdb-team added bug Something isn't working major SQL labels Nov 30, 2020
@sjoerdmullender sjoerdmullender added this to the Ancient Release milestone Feb 7, 2022
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