MySQL Bugs: #1148: mysqldump get error with table name equal reserved keywords

Bug #1148	mysqldump get error with table name equal reserved keywords
Submitted:	27 Aug 2003 6:43	Modified:	2 Sep 2003 11:26
Reporter:	Vasily Shabanov
Status:	Closed
Category:	Client	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	3.23.55	OS:	Linux (Linux (All OS))
Assigned to:	Sergei Golubchik	Target Version:

Description:
If table has name equal reserved words (like a "check") mysqldump get error
«/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqldump: Can't get info about table: 'check'
error: 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 'check' at line 1» and finished.

How to repeat:
always

Suggested fix:
In mysqldump change line     
689: sprintf(insert_pat,"show fields from %s",table_name);
to
689: sprintf(insert_pat,"show fields from `%s`",table_name);

Change lines 681, 701, 704, 729, 759, 763, 766, 788, 811

your simple fix won't work, because for --quote-names table_name will contain quotes
already, the fix is a little bit more complex (but, yes, just a little bit)

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fixed in 3.23.59 and 4.0.16

There is a related problem that appears not to have been fixed in the 4.0.16 release of
mysqldump.  My database has some field names that are two words with a space in between. 
mysqldump produces lines such as the following, which cause syntax errors when I attempt
to load the data, because there are no backquotes around the two-word field name 'Last
Updated`:

CREATE TABLE Company (
  ...
  Last Updated timestamp(14) NOT NULL,
  ...
) TYPE=MyISAM;