Fix “Row size too large (> 8126). Changing some columns to TEXT or BLOB or using ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC or ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED may help. In current row format, BLOB”
One possible solution is to simply add this line before your SQL query to get around this issue.
SET SESSION innodb_strict_mode=OFF;
https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-10364