gh-ost/localtests/latin1text-to-utf8mb4
Josh Bielick 84e55ff904
copy and update text using convert when charset changes
addresses #290

Note: there is currently no issue backfilling the ghost table when the
characterset changes, likely because it's a insert-into-select-from and
it all occurs within mysql.

However, when applying DML events (UPDATE, DELETE, etc) the values are
sprintf'd into a prepared statement and due to the possibility of
migrating text column data containing invalid characters in the
destination charset, a conversion step is often necessary.

For example, when migrating a table/column from latin1 to utf8mb4, the
latin1 column may contain characters that are invalid single-byte utf8
characters. Characters in the \x80-\xFF range are most common. When
written to utf8mb4 column without conversion, they fail as they do not
exist in the utf8 codepage.

Converting these texts/characters to the destination charset using
convert(? using {charset}) will convert appropriately and the
update/replace will succeed.

I only point out the "Note:" above because there are two tests added
for this: latin1text-to-utf8mb4 and latin1text-to-ut8mb4-insert

The former is a test that fails prior to this commit. The latter is a
test that succeeds prior to this comment. Both are affected by the code
in this commit.

convert text to original charset, then destination

converting text first to the original charset and then to the
destination charset produces the most consistent results, as inserting
the binary into a utf8-charset column may encounter an error if there is
no prior context of latin1 encoding.

mysql> select hex(convert(char(189) using utf8mb4));
+---------------------------------------+
| hex(convert(char(189) using utf8mb4)) |
+---------------------------------------+
|                                       |
+---------------------------------------+
1 row in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec)

mysql> select hex(convert(convert(char(189) using latin1) using utf8mb4));
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| hex(convert(convert(char(189) using latin1) using utf8mb4)) |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| C2BD                                                        |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

as seen in this failure on 5.5.62

 Error 1300: Invalid utf8mb4 character string: 'BD'; query=
			replace /* gh-ost `test`.`_gh_ost_test_gho` */ into
				`test`.`_gh_ost_test_gho`
					(`id`, `t`)
				values
					(?, convert(? using utf8mb4))
2021-07-14 09:20:24 -04:00
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create.sql copy and update text using convert when charset changes 2021-07-14 09:20:24 -04:00
extra_args add failing test for #290, invalid utf8 char 2021-07-14 09:20:19 -04:00
ignored_versions add failing test for #290, invalid utf8 char 2021-07-14 09:20:19 -04:00