Bug #18397 Identifiers: Special Windows names (nul, prn, etc.) not disallowed
Submitted: 21 Mar 2006 15:14 Modified: 29 Mar 2006 15:19
Reporter: Paul DuBois Email Updates:
Status: Duplicate Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.1 OS:Any (ALL)
Assigned to: Assigned Account CPU Architecture:Any

[21 Mar 2006 15:14] Paul DuBois
Description:
Names that are special on Windows, such as nul and prn,
should not be allowed as database and table names.
But they are allowed.

How to repeat:
mysql> create table nul (i int);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.05 sec)

mysql> create table prn (i int);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.06 sec)
[29 Mar 2006 15:19] Mark Matthews
Duplicate of Bug#17870