Upgraded Spring boot: Now getting "bad SQL grammar" errors from JDBC and JOOQ - spring-boot

Question

So I upgraded Spring Boot starter to 2.3.1 from 2.2.8.
I kept JOOQ at its original 3.11.5 version, as I do not want to go to version 3.12 as it does not support MySQL 5_7 as a free option.
I am now getting bad SQL grammar errors from existing queries, I don't even know where to start debugging this as what library upgrade from the starter is causing the issue?
Full error is
`Caused by: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: You have an error in your SQL syntax\
; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version \
for the right syntax to use near '-1) as `alias_13136459` on \
`ideas_service`.`challenge`.`id` = `id_alias` left ou' at line 1
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:120)
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:97)
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLExceptionsMapping.translateException(SQLExceptionsMapping.java:122)
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ClientPreparedStatement.executeInternal(ClientPreparedStatement.java:953)
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ClientPreparedStatement.execute(ClientPreparedStatement.java:370)
at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.ProxyPreparedStatement.execute(ProxyPreparedStatement.java:44)
at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariProxyPreparedStatement.execute(HikariProxyPreparedStatement.java)
at org.jooq.tools.jdbc.DefaultPreparedStatement.execute(DefaultPreparedStatement.java:209)
at org.jooq.impl.Tools.executeStatementAndGetFirstResultSet(Tools.java:3483)
at org.jooq.impl.AbstractResultQuery.execute(AbstractResultQuery.java:268)
at org.jooq.impl.AbstractQuery.execute(AbstractQuery.java:350)
... 122 common frames omitted`
Here is the query that gives bad SQL error:
public List<ChallengeDetails> findAllChallengesDetails(
#NonNull Integer offset, #NonNull Integer limit, Integer competitionId) {
log.info(
"Find ChallengeEntity(s) (join ChallengeQuestionsEntity) with offset: {}, limit: {}, competitionId: {}",
offset,
limit,
competitionId);
var challengeIdAlias = CHALLENGE.ID.as("id_alias");
var filterSelect =
dsl.select(challengeIdAlias)
.from(CHALLENGE)
.where(findAllChallengesCondition(competitionId))
.orderBy(CHALLENGE.NAME.asc())
.limit(limit)
.offset(offset);
Result<Record> result =
dsl.select(CHALLENGE.fields())
.select(CHALLENGE_QUESTIONS.fields())
.from(CHALLENGE)
.innerJoin(filterSelect)
.on(CHALLENGE.ID.eq(challengeIdAlias))
.leftOuterJoin(CHALLENGE_QUESTIONS)
.on(CHALLENGE.ID.eq(CHALLENGE_QUESTIONS.CHALLENGE_ID))
.orderBy(CHALLENGE.ID.asc(), CHALLENGE_QUESTIONS.ID.asc())
.fetch();
return intoChallengeDetailsGroups(result)
.entrySet()
.stream()
.map(entry -> new ChallengeDetails(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue()))
.collect(toList());
}
private Condition findAllChallengesCondition(Integer competitionId) {
Condition condition = CHALLENGE.TENANT.eq(getCurrentTenant());
if (competitionId != null) {
condition = condition.and(CHALLENGE.COMPETITION_ID.eq(competitionId));
}
return condition;
}

Answer 1

The error can be reproduced in MySQL directly:
select *
from (select 1 a limit 2, -1) t
It produces:
[1064] [42000]: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '-1) t' at line 2
You shouldn't pass negative numbers to LIMIT or OFFSET