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Vertica: JDBC Driver does not support FETCH NEXT, only LIMIT

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java, sql
Domain
backend, databases

Research direction

Start with Drill's JDBC storage plugin and the SQL generation path that produces FETCH NEXT for query results. Reproduce the failure against a Vertica-based datasource using the reported query, then verify that the generated query uses LIMIT and returns results successfully.

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Description

Describe the bug
When connecting a RDBMS datasource that is based on Vertica, Drill attempts to use the FETCH NEXT approach for query optimization, however vertica JDBC doesn't support FETCH NEXT but only supports limit.
https://docs.vertica.com/12.0.x/en/sql-reference/statements/select/limit-clause/

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Connect a Vertica based RDBMS Datasource
  2. Once successful, validate with SHOW SCHEMAS;
  3. Attempt to run a query against one of the vertica tables
  4. Observe the error

Expected behavior
Results should appear properly and not use fetch next

Error detail, log output or screenshots
org.apache.drill.common.exceptions.UserRemoteException: DATA_READ ERROR: The JDBC storage plugin failed while trying setup the SQL query.

Sql: SELECT *
FROM "VerticaDB"."xxxxxxxxx"."yyyyyyyyy"
FETCH NEXT 1000 ROWS ONLY
Fragment: 0:0

[Error Id: d142a3d5-f5b3-4f9c-b850-a39e72604953 on a68ba75bf84a:31010]

SQL LOG:

Caused by: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: [Vertica]VJDBC ERROR: Syntax error at or near "NEXT" at character 59
at com.vertica.util.ServerErrorData.buildException()
at com.vertica.io.ProtocolStream.readExpectedMessage()
at com.vertica.dataengine.VDataEngine.prepareImpl()
at com.vertica.dataengine.VDataEngine.prepare()

Drill version
1.21.1

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