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Default of (var)binary column shown as hex if query this from information_schema even with --skip-binary-as-hex flag
Posted by: Stepan Furman
Date: April 02, 2020 03:57AM

Description:

Updating or product to support MySQL-8 we figured out that select returns values of varbinary columns as hex. Quick googling brought us to --skip-
binary-as-hex flag which fixed this. But when we want to check what is default value right now for varbinary column (we have a test for that) we still get hex...

Does anybody have an idea of how to preserve MySQL-5.7 backward compatible behavior?
Any other client flag? Or some configuration?


Preconditions:

Run query
CREATE TABLE `test_table` (
`smallint` smallint NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`tinyint` tinyint DEFAULT NULL,
`varchar` varchar(254) DEFAULT NULL,
`varbinary` varbinary(255) DEFAULT 'test',
PRIMARY KEY (`smallint`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=4 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;


Steps to reproduce:

- run mysql client with flag --skip-binary-as-hex
- run query
select c.COLUMN_DEFAULT
from information_schema.COLUMNS as c
where c.TABLE_NAME like 'test_table'
and c.TABLE_SCHEMA = 'magento2'
and c.COLUMN_NAME = 'varbinary';


Expected result:

'test'


Actual result:

0x74657374

Thanks in advance for any help

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