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MySQL truncates concatenated result of a GROUP_CONCAT function

I've created a view which uses GROUP_CONCAT to concatenate results from a query on products column with data type of 'varchar(7) utf8_general_ci' in a column named concat_products.

The problem is that MySQL truncates value of "concat_products" column. phpMyAdmin says the data type of "concat_products" column is varchar(341) utf8_bin

Table products:

CREATE TABLE `products`(     `productId` tinyint(2) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,      `product` varchar(7) COLLATE utf8_general_ci NOT NULL,      `price` mediumint(5) unsigned NOT NULL,      PRIMARY KEY (`productId`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=28 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_general_ci 

The "concat_products_vw" view:

CREATE VIEW concat_products_vw AS SELECT   `userId`,     GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT_WS('_', `product`, `productId`, `price`)          ORDER BY `productId` ASC SEPARATOR '*') AS concat_products FROM   `users` LEFT JOIN `products`  ON `users`.`accountBalance` >= `product`.`price` GROUP BY `productId`  

According to MySQL manual:

Values in VARCHAR columns are variable-length strings
Length can be specified as a value from 1 to 255 before MySQL 4.0.2 and 0 to 255 as of MySQL 4.0.2.


EDIT

Values in VARCHAR columns are variable-length strings. The length can be specified as a value from 0 to 65,535.

  1. Why MySQL specifies more than 255 characters for varchar "concat_products" column? (solved!)

  2. Why uf8_bin instead of utf8_general_ci?

  3. Is it possible to change the data type of a column in a view for example in my case to text for "concat_products" column?

  4. If not what can I do to prevent MySQL from truncating "concat_products" column?

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pouya Avatar asked Aug 17 '12 07:08

pouya


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1 Answers

As I already wrote in an earlier comment, the MySQL manual says:

Values in VARCHAR columns are variable-length strings. The length can be specified as a value from 0 to 65,535.

So the problem is not with the data type of the field.

The MySQL manual also says:

The result is truncated to the maximum length that is given by the group_concat_max_len system variable, which has a default value of 1024. The value can be set higher, although the effective maximum length of the return value is constrained by the value of max_allowed_packet. The syntax to change the value of group_concat_max_len at runtime is as follows, where val is an unsigned integer: SET [GLOBAL | SESSION] group_concat_max_len = val;

Your options for changing the value of group_concat_max_len are:

  1. changing the value at MySQL startup by appending this to the command:
    --group_concat_max_len=your_value_here
  2. adding this line in your MySQL configuration file (mysql.ini): group_concat_max_len=your_value_here
  3. running this command after MySQL startup:
    SET GLOBAL group_concat_max_len=your_value_here;
  4. running this command after opening a MySQL connection:
    SET SESSION group_concat_max_len=your_value_here;

Documentation: SET, Server System Variables: group_concat_max_len

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Jocelyn Avatar answered Sep 22 '22 09:09

Jocelyn