[FORMATTING] MariaDB function call parenthesis spacing results in invalid MariaDB SQL

[theking2]

Input data

Which SQL and options did you provide as input?

select
    group_concat(PHYSICIAN separator ' / ') Doktor
from
    invoice_physician
group by
    INVOICENR;

Expected Output

select
    group_concat(PHYSICIAN separator ' / ') Doktor
from
    invoice_physician
group by
    INVOICENR;

Actual Output

select
    group_concat (PHYSICIAN separator ' / ') Doktor
from
    invoice_physician
group by
    INVOICENR;

Usage

• VS Code
• Currently using MariaDB 11.4.2
• v4.1.1

MariaDB does not like a space between GROUP_CONCAT and the (. Don't ask but using the formatter breaks my code here.

[theking2]

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78765315/use-of-group-concat-results-in-error-1064?noredirect=1#comment138871662_78765315

[theking2]

and ultimatily here https://mariadb.com/kb/en/parentheses/

[nene]

You're saying that you're using version 4.1.1. I suppose you're referring to the version of the VS Code plugin.

According to my testing, this bug does not exist in SQL Formatter. You can try it on the demo page.

The most likely cause is that you haven't selected MariaDB as the SQL dialect that you're formatting. See the FAQ.

[nene]

I'm closing this. Feel free to comment if the above does not solve your issue.

[theking2]

I went to a number of SQL formatters lately and had not specified MariaDB as dialect for this one. After adding this to settings.json

    "SQL-Formatter-VSCode.dialect": "mariadb",

the problem went away. Thanks.