Description:
We wanted to extract structure and data of an Exasol database. Installing of the ODBC driver worked fine. But connecting to the Exasol database caused troubles:
How to repeat:
Starting...
Connect to source DBMS...
- Connecting to source...
Connect to source DBMS done
Check target DBMS connection...
- Connecting to target...
Reconnecting to Mysql@10.0.0.140:3306...
Connection restablished
Check target DBMS connection done
Retrieve schema list from source....
- Checking connection...
- Fetching catalog names...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/MySQLWorkbench.app/Contents/Resources/plugins/db_generic_re_grt.py", line 715, in getCatalogNames
return GenericReverseEngineering.getCatalogNames(connection)
File "/Applications/MySQLWorkbench.app/Contents/Resources/plugins/db_generic_re_grt.py", line 193, in getCatalogNames
return list(set(row[0] for row in cls.get_connection(connection).cursor().tables()))
File "/Applications/MySQLWorkbench.app/Contents/Resources/plugins/db_generic_re_grt.py", line 193, in <genexpr>
return list(set(row[0] for row in cls.get_connection(connection).cursor().tables()))
pyodbc.Error: ('HY000', '[HY000] [EXASOL][EXASolution driver]Character set conversion error or output buffer to small: Illegal byte sequence column 3, cursor position 751, codepage US-ASCII. (1) (SQLGetData)')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/MySQLWorkbench.app/Contents/Resources/libraries/workbench/wizard_progress_page_widget.py", line 192, in thread_work
self.func()
File "/Applications/MySQLWorkbench.app/Contents/Resources/plugins/migration_source_selection.py", line 456, in task_fetch_schemata
self.main.plan.migrationSource.doFetchSchemaNames(only_these_catalogs)
File "/Applications/MySQLWorkbench.app/Contents/Resources/plugins/migration.py", line 250, in doFetchSchemaNames
catalog_names = self.getCatalogNames()
File "/Applications/MySQLWorkbench.app/Contents/Resources/plugins/migration.py", line 214, in getCatalogNames
return self._rev_eng_module.getCatalogNames(self.connection)
SystemError: Error("('HY000', '[HY000] [EXASOL][EXASolution driver]Character set conversion error or output buffer to small: Illegal byte sequence column 3, cursor position 751, codepage US-ASCII. (1) (SQLGetData)')"): error calling Python module function DbGenericRE.getCatalogNames
ERROR: Retrieve schema list from source: Error("('HY000', '[HY000] [EXASOL][EXASolution driver]Character set conversion error or output buffer to small: Illegal byte sequence column 3, cursor position 751, codepage US-ASCII. (1) (SQLGetData)')"): error calling Python module function DbGenericRE.getCatalogNames
Failed
Suggested fix:
No clue. Somehow codepage US-ASCII made troubles...