Major Description
I had the goofiest query issue the other day. A seemingly fine query was throwing a parse error via sqlline.
Error: ERROR 601 (42P00): Syntax error. Unexpected char: ' ' (state=42P00,code=601)
org.apache.phoenix.exception.PhoenixParserException: ERROR 601 (42P00): Syntax error. Unexpected char: ' '
at org.apache.phoenix.exception.PhoenixParserException.newException(PhoenixParserException.java:33)
at org.apache.phoenix.parse.SQLParser.parseStatement(SQLParser.java:118)
at org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixStatement$PhoenixStatementParser.parseStatement(PhoenixStatement.java:1280)
at org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixStatement.parseStatement(PhoenixStatement.java:1363)
at org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixStatement.execute(PhoenixStatement.java:1434)
at sqlline.Commands.execute(Commands.java:822)
at sqlline.Commands.sql(Commands.java:732)
at sqlline.SqlLine.dispatch(SqlLine.java:807)
at sqlline.SqlLine.runCommands(SqlLine.java:1710)
at sqlline.Commands.run(Commands.java:1285)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at sqlline.ReflectiveCommandHandler.execute(ReflectiveCommandHandler.java:36)
at sqlline.SqlLine.dispatch(SqlLine.java:803)
at sqlline.SqlLine.initArgs(SqlLine.java:613)
at sqlline.SqlLine.begin(SqlLine.java:656)
at sqlline.SqlLine.start(SqlLine.java:398)
at sqlline.SqlLine.main(SqlLine.java:292)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected char: ' '
at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLLexer.mOTHER(PhoenixSQLLexer.java:4324)
at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLLexer.mTokens(PhoenixSQLLexer.java:5437)
at org.apache.phoenix.shaded.org.antlr.runtime.Lexer.nextToken(Lexer.java:85)
at org.apache.phoenix.shaded.org.antlr.runtime.BufferedTokenStream.fetch(BufferedTokenStream.java:143)
at org.apache.phoenix.shaded.org.antlr.runtime.BufferedTokenStream.sync(BufferedTokenStream.java:137)
at org.apache.phoenix.shaded.org.antlr.runtime.CommonTokenStream.skipOffTokenChannels(CommonTokenStream.java:113)
at org.apache.phoenix.shaded.org.antlr.runtime.CommonTokenStream.LT(CommonTokenStream.java:102)
at org.apache.phoenix.shaded.org.antlr.runtime.BufferedTokenStream.LA(BufferedTokenStream.java:174)
at org.apache.phoenix.shaded.org.antlr.runtime.BaseRecognizer.mismatchIsUnwantedToken(BaseRecognizer.java:127)
at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLParser.recoverFromMismatchedToken(PhoenixSQLParser.java:354)
at org.apache.phoenix.shaded.org.antlr.runtime.BaseRecognizer.match(BaseRecognizer.java:115)
at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLParser.parseNoReserved(PhoenixSQLParser.java:9969)
at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLParser.identifier(PhoenixSQLParser.java:9936)
at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLParser.column_def(PhoenixSQLParser.java:3938)
at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLParser.column_defs(PhoenixSQLParser.java:3858)
at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLParser.create_table_node(PhoenixSQLParser.java:1104)
at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLParser.oneStatement(PhoenixSQLParser.java:816)
at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLParser.statement(PhoenixSQLParser.java:508)
at org.apache.phoenix.parse.SQLParser.parseStatement(SQLParser.java:108)
... 18 more
Re-typing the statement by hand worked successfully.
After some hexdump and diff action, I finally found out that some of the space characters in the statement were not the normal ASCII 0x20 character, but actually the unicode U+2002 "En Space" character. They look identical to the eye which spawned all of the confusion.