Why does `SET NAMES utf8` change the behaviour of `REPLACE(uuid(),…)` calls?












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While investigating an issue with a failing migration I found out the following strange behaviour. Using SET NAMES utf8 on my client session changes the behaviour of REPLACE(uuid(),'','') calls.



mysql> select replace(uuid(),'','') from mysql.user;
+--------------------------------------+
| replace(uuid(),'','') |
+--------------------------------------+
| 4b483d57-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| 4b483d57-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| 4b483d57-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> set names utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> select replace(uuid(),'','') from mysql.user;
+--------------------------------------+
| replace(uuid(),'','') |
+--------------------------------------+
| 539c0b5c-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| 539c0b79-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| 539c0b7f-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.01 sec)


As you can see the generated UUID's are unique only after setting NAMES to utf8. The way I found out about SET NAMES utf8 was passing the query through MySQL Workbench.



I would greatly appreciate if someone here can explain how character sets (NAMES) influence the output of REPLACE(UUID(), ...) calls. Thanks in advance.



Update: adding a snippet to prove that the problem 1) is not with UUID() generating non-unique values and 2) relates to utf8mb4 charset



mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE  'char%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_connection | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_database | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_server | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.01 sec)

mysql> select uuid, replace(uuid,'','') from ( select uuid() as uuid from mysql.user) tmp;
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| uuid | replace(uuid,'','') |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| e41d2fe4-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e41d2dc2-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| e41d3042-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e41d2dc2-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| e41d309c-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e41d2dc2-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> set names utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select uuid, replace(uuid,'','') from ( select uuid() as uuid from mysql.user) tmp;
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| uuid | replace(uuid,'','') |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| e9059092-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e9059117-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| e90591a1-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e905923e-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| e9059380-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e90593e1-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> set names utf8mb4;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select uuid, replace(uuid,'','') from ( select uuid() as uuid from mysql.user) tmp;
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| uuid | replace(uuid,'','') |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| ef564f32-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | ef564d0c-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| ef564fa4-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | ef564d0c-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| ef565019-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | ef564d0c-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)


Update 2: Adding EXPLAIN queries below to trace the actual SQL code as suggested by @qbolec. That reveals that the use of CONVERT(... using ...) is the culprit for the non-unique UUIDs. I still do not exactly understand why as this is not the behaviour I expect from CONVERT() func.



mysql> set names utf8mb4;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> explain select replace(uuid(),'','') from mysql.user;W
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | user | NULL | index | NULL | PRIMARY | 276 | NULL | 7 | 100.00 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
1 row in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec)

Note (Code 1003): /* select#1 */ select replace(convert(uuid() using utf8mb4),'','') AS `replace(uuid(),'','')` from `mysql`.`user`
Show warnings enabled.

mysql> set names utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> explain select replace(uuid(),'','') from mysql.user;W
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | user | NULL | index | NULL | PRIMARY | 276 | NULL | 7 | 100.00 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
1 row in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec)

Note (Code 1003): /* select#1 */ select replace(uuid(),'','') AS `replace(uuid(),'','')` from `mysql`.`user`
Show warnings enabled.









share|improve this question

























  • Its normal the uuid varies on the first block. Maybe, the problem are because the first query has been executed too fast (uuid is time based). Check wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier) for more information about uuid composition.

    – Sakura Kinomoto
    Nov 21 '18 at 0:46











  • Have you tried to set back the connection/client charset to the value it had originally and what comes out then?

    – Mike Lischke
    Nov 21 '18 at 8:47











  • @MikeLischke I just tried that with the same effect. Original charset is utf8mb4. I updated my question to include the test commands I used.

    – Alex
    Nov 21 '18 at 9:47






  • 1





    You can try EXPLAIN <your query> followed by SHOW WARNINGSG to see what your query looks like after optimizer applies it's magic. I have a suspicion, that optimizer changes the query into non-equivalent form in which uuid() is called multiple times per single row. My belief is that it should never do that, but perhaps it only does so for certain code-pages/configurations. IMHO it is worth reporting as a bugs.mysql.com

    – qbolec
    Nov 22 '18 at 9:21
















2















While investigating an issue with a failing migration I found out the following strange behaviour. Using SET NAMES utf8 on my client session changes the behaviour of REPLACE(uuid(),'','') calls.



mysql> select replace(uuid(),'','') from mysql.user;
+--------------------------------------+
| replace(uuid(),'','') |
+--------------------------------------+
| 4b483d57-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| 4b483d57-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| 4b483d57-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> set names utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> select replace(uuid(),'','') from mysql.user;
+--------------------------------------+
| replace(uuid(),'','') |
+--------------------------------------+
| 539c0b5c-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| 539c0b79-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| 539c0b7f-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.01 sec)


As you can see the generated UUID's are unique only after setting NAMES to utf8. The way I found out about SET NAMES utf8 was passing the query through MySQL Workbench.



I would greatly appreciate if someone here can explain how character sets (NAMES) influence the output of REPLACE(UUID(), ...) calls. Thanks in advance.



Update: adding a snippet to prove that the problem 1) is not with UUID() generating non-unique values and 2) relates to utf8mb4 charset



mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE  'char%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_connection | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_database | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_server | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.01 sec)

mysql> select uuid, replace(uuid,'','') from ( select uuid() as uuid from mysql.user) tmp;
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| uuid | replace(uuid,'','') |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| e41d2fe4-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e41d2dc2-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| e41d3042-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e41d2dc2-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| e41d309c-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e41d2dc2-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> set names utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select uuid, replace(uuid,'','') from ( select uuid() as uuid from mysql.user) tmp;
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| uuid | replace(uuid,'','') |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| e9059092-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e9059117-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| e90591a1-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e905923e-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| e9059380-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e90593e1-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> set names utf8mb4;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select uuid, replace(uuid,'','') from ( select uuid() as uuid from mysql.user) tmp;
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| uuid | replace(uuid,'','') |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| ef564f32-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | ef564d0c-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| ef564fa4-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | ef564d0c-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| ef565019-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | ef564d0c-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)


Update 2: Adding EXPLAIN queries below to trace the actual SQL code as suggested by @qbolec. That reveals that the use of CONVERT(... using ...) is the culprit for the non-unique UUIDs. I still do not exactly understand why as this is not the behaviour I expect from CONVERT() func.



mysql> set names utf8mb4;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> explain select replace(uuid(),'','') from mysql.user;W
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | user | NULL | index | NULL | PRIMARY | 276 | NULL | 7 | 100.00 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
1 row in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec)

Note (Code 1003): /* select#1 */ select replace(convert(uuid() using utf8mb4),'','') AS `replace(uuid(),'','')` from `mysql`.`user`
Show warnings enabled.

mysql> set names utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> explain select replace(uuid(),'','') from mysql.user;W
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | user | NULL | index | NULL | PRIMARY | 276 | NULL | 7 | 100.00 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
1 row in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec)

Note (Code 1003): /* select#1 */ select replace(uuid(),'','') AS `replace(uuid(),'','')` from `mysql`.`user`
Show warnings enabled.









share|improve this question

























  • Its normal the uuid varies on the first block. Maybe, the problem are because the first query has been executed too fast (uuid is time based). Check wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier) for more information about uuid composition.

    – Sakura Kinomoto
    Nov 21 '18 at 0:46











  • Have you tried to set back the connection/client charset to the value it had originally and what comes out then?

    – Mike Lischke
    Nov 21 '18 at 8:47











  • @MikeLischke I just tried that with the same effect. Original charset is utf8mb4. I updated my question to include the test commands I used.

    – Alex
    Nov 21 '18 at 9:47






  • 1





    You can try EXPLAIN <your query> followed by SHOW WARNINGSG to see what your query looks like after optimizer applies it's magic. I have a suspicion, that optimizer changes the query into non-equivalent form in which uuid() is called multiple times per single row. My belief is that it should never do that, but perhaps it only does so for certain code-pages/configurations. IMHO it is worth reporting as a bugs.mysql.com

    – qbolec
    Nov 22 '18 at 9:21














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While investigating an issue with a failing migration I found out the following strange behaviour. Using SET NAMES utf8 on my client session changes the behaviour of REPLACE(uuid(),'','') calls.



mysql> select replace(uuid(),'','') from mysql.user;
+--------------------------------------+
| replace(uuid(),'','') |
+--------------------------------------+
| 4b483d57-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| 4b483d57-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| 4b483d57-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> set names utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> select replace(uuid(),'','') from mysql.user;
+--------------------------------------+
| replace(uuid(),'','') |
+--------------------------------------+
| 539c0b5c-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| 539c0b79-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| 539c0b7f-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.01 sec)


As you can see the generated UUID's are unique only after setting NAMES to utf8. The way I found out about SET NAMES utf8 was passing the query through MySQL Workbench.



I would greatly appreciate if someone here can explain how character sets (NAMES) influence the output of REPLACE(UUID(), ...) calls. Thanks in advance.



Update: adding a snippet to prove that the problem 1) is not with UUID() generating non-unique values and 2) relates to utf8mb4 charset



mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE  'char%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_connection | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_database | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_server | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.01 sec)

mysql> select uuid, replace(uuid,'','') from ( select uuid() as uuid from mysql.user) tmp;
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| uuid | replace(uuid,'','') |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| e41d2fe4-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e41d2dc2-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| e41d3042-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e41d2dc2-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| e41d309c-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e41d2dc2-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> set names utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select uuid, replace(uuid,'','') from ( select uuid() as uuid from mysql.user) tmp;
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| uuid | replace(uuid,'','') |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| e9059092-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e9059117-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| e90591a1-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e905923e-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| e9059380-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e90593e1-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> set names utf8mb4;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select uuid, replace(uuid,'','') from ( select uuid() as uuid from mysql.user) tmp;
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| uuid | replace(uuid,'','') |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| ef564f32-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | ef564d0c-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| ef564fa4-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | ef564d0c-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| ef565019-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | ef564d0c-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)


Update 2: Adding EXPLAIN queries below to trace the actual SQL code as suggested by @qbolec. That reveals that the use of CONVERT(... using ...) is the culprit for the non-unique UUIDs. I still do not exactly understand why as this is not the behaviour I expect from CONVERT() func.



mysql> set names utf8mb4;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> explain select replace(uuid(),'','') from mysql.user;W
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | user | NULL | index | NULL | PRIMARY | 276 | NULL | 7 | 100.00 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
1 row in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec)

Note (Code 1003): /* select#1 */ select replace(convert(uuid() using utf8mb4),'','') AS `replace(uuid(),'','')` from `mysql`.`user`
Show warnings enabled.

mysql> set names utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> explain select replace(uuid(),'','') from mysql.user;W
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | user | NULL | index | NULL | PRIMARY | 276 | NULL | 7 | 100.00 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
1 row in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec)

Note (Code 1003): /* select#1 */ select replace(uuid(),'','') AS `replace(uuid(),'','')` from `mysql`.`user`
Show warnings enabled.









share|improve this question
















While investigating an issue with a failing migration I found out the following strange behaviour. Using SET NAMES utf8 on my client session changes the behaviour of REPLACE(uuid(),'','') calls.



mysql> select replace(uuid(),'','') from mysql.user;
+--------------------------------------+
| replace(uuid(),'','') |
+--------------------------------------+
| 4b483d57-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| 4b483d57-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| 4b483d57-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> set names utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> select replace(uuid(),'','') from mysql.user;
+--------------------------------------+
| replace(uuid(),'','') |
+--------------------------------------+
| 539c0b5c-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| 539c0b79-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| 539c0b7f-ecdc-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.01 sec)


As you can see the generated UUID's are unique only after setting NAMES to utf8. The way I found out about SET NAMES utf8 was passing the query through MySQL Workbench.



I would greatly appreciate if someone here can explain how character sets (NAMES) influence the output of REPLACE(UUID(), ...) calls. Thanks in advance.



Update: adding a snippet to prove that the problem 1) is not with UUID() generating non-unique values and 2) relates to utf8mb4 charset



mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE  'char%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_connection | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_database | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_server | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.01 sec)

mysql> select uuid, replace(uuid,'','') from ( select uuid() as uuid from mysql.user) tmp;
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| uuid | replace(uuid,'','') |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| e41d2fe4-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e41d2dc2-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| e41d3042-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e41d2dc2-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| e41d309c-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e41d2dc2-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> set names utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select uuid, replace(uuid,'','') from ( select uuid() as uuid from mysql.user) tmp;
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| uuid | replace(uuid,'','') |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| e9059092-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e9059117-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| e90591a1-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e905923e-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| e9059380-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | e90593e1-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> set names utf8mb4;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select uuid, replace(uuid,'','') from ( select uuid() as uuid from mysql.user) tmp;
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| uuid | replace(uuid,'','') |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| ef564f32-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | ef564d0c-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| ef564fa4-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | ef564d0c-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
| ef565019-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 | ef564d0c-ed70-11e8-844f-0242ac120002 |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)


Update 2: Adding EXPLAIN queries below to trace the actual SQL code as suggested by @qbolec. That reveals that the use of CONVERT(... using ...) is the culprit for the non-unique UUIDs. I still do not exactly understand why as this is not the behaviour I expect from CONVERT() func.



mysql> set names utf8mb4;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> explain select replace(uuid(),'','') from mysql.user;W
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | user | NULL | index | NULL | PRIMARY | 276 | NULL | 7 | 100.00 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
1 row in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec)

Note (Code 1003): /* select#1 */ select replace(convert(uuid() using utf8mb4),'','') AS `replace(uuid(),'','')` from `mysql`.`user`
Show warnings enabled.

mysql> set names utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> explain select replace(uuid(),'','') from mysql.user;W
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | user | NULL | index | NULL | PRIMARY | 276 | NULL | 7 | 100.00 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
1 row in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec)

Note (Code 1003): /* select#1 */ select replace(uuid(),'','') AS `replace(uuid(),'','')` from `mysql`.`user`
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  • Its normal the uuid varies on the first block. Maybe, the problem are because the first query has been executed too fast (uuid is time based). Check wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier) for more information about uuid composition.

    – Sakura Kinomoto
    Nov 21 '18 at 0:46











  • Have you tried to set back the connection/client charset to the value it had originally and what comes out then?

    – Mike Lischke
    Nov 21 '18 at 8:47











  • @MikeLischke I just tried that with the same effect. Original charset is utf8mb4. I updated my question to include the test commands I used.

    – Alex
    Nov 21 '18 at 9:47






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    You can try EXPLAIN <your query> followed by SHOW WARNINGSG to see what your query looks like after optimizer applies it's magic. I have a suspicion, that optimizer changes the query into non-equivalent form in which uuid() is called multiple times per single row. My belief is that it should never do that, but perhaps it only does so for certain code-pages/configurations. IMHO it is worth reporting as a bugs.mysql.com

    – qbolec
    Nov 22 '18 at 9:21



















  • Its normal the uuid varies on the first block. Maybe, the problem are because the first query has been executed too fast (uuid is time based). Check wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier) for more information about uuid composition.

    – Sakura Kinomoto
    Nov 21 '18 at 0:46











  • Have you tried to set back the connection/client charset to the value it had originally and what comes out then?

    – Mike Lischke
    Nov 21 '18 at 8:47











  • @MikeLischke I just tried that with the same effect. Original charset is utf8mb4. I updated my question to include the test commands I used.

    – Alex
    Nov 21 '18 at 9:47






  • 1





    You can try EXPLAIN <your query> followed by SHOW WARNINGSG to see what your query looks like after optimizer applies it's magic. I have a suspicion, that optimizer changes the query into non-equivalent form in which uuid() is called multiple times per single row. My belief is that it should never do that, but perhaps it only does so for certain code-pages/configurations. IMHO it is worth reporting as a bugs.mysql.com

    – qbolec
    Nov 22 '18 at 9:21

















Its normal the uuid varies on the first block. Maybe, the problem are because the first query has been executed too fast (uuid is time based). Check wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier) for more information about uuid composition.

– Sakura Kinomoto
Nov 21 '18 at 0:46





Its normal the uuid varies on the first block. Maybe, the problem are because the first query has been executed too fast (uuid is time based). Check wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier) for more information about uuid composition.

– Sakura Kinomoto
Nov 21 '18 at 0:46













Have you tried to set back the connection/client charset to the value it had originally and what comes out then?

– Mike Lischke
Nov 21 '18 at 8:47





Have you tried to set back the connection/client charset to the value it had originally and what comes out then?

– Mike Lischke
Nov 21 '18 at 8:47













@MikeLischke I just tried that with the same effect. Original charset is utf8mb4. I updated my question to include the test commands I used.

– Alex
Nov 21 '18 at 9:47





@MikeLischke I just tried that with the same effect. Original charset is utf8mb4. I updated my question to include the test commands I used.

– Alex
Nov 21 '18 at 9:47




1




1





You can try EXPLAIN <your query> followed by SHOW WARNINGSG to see what your query looks like after optimizer applies it's magic. I have a suspicion, that optimizer changes the query into non-equivalent form in which uuid() is called multiple times per single row. My belief is that it should never do that, but perhaps it only does so for certain code-pages/configurations. IMHO it is worth reporting as a bugs.mysql.com

– qbolec
Nov 22 '18 at 9:21





You can try EXPLAIN <your query> followed by SHOW WARNINGSG to see what your query looks like after optimizer applies it's magic. I have a suspicion, that optimizer changes the query into non-equivalent form in which uuid() is called multiple times per single row. My belief is that it should never do that, but perhaps it only does so for certain code-pages/configurations. IMHO it is worth reporting as a bugs.mysql.com

– qbolec
Nov 22 '18 at 9:21












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