MySQL Bugs: #2281: mysqldump doesn't quote variables with a '-' in their name

Bug #2281	mysqldump doesn't quote variables with a '-' in their name
Submitted:	5 Jan 2004 4:40	Modified:	14 Jan 2004 2:50
Reporter:	Adam Langley	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: mysqldump Command-line Client	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	4.0.16	OS:
Assigned to:	Sergei Golubchik	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Variables with a '-' in their name need to be quoted in backticks. mysqldump fails to do this.

How to repeat:
Use mysqldump to dump a table which has variables that have a '-' in their name.

Suggested fix:
Quote the strings correctly.

Please us proper option for this:

 ./client/mysqldump --quote-names bug
-- MySQL dump 9.10
--
-- Host: localhost    Database: bug
-- ------------------------------------------------------
-- Server version       4.0.18-debug

--
-- Table structure for table `t1-t2`
--

CREATE TABLE `t1-t2` (
  `c1-cw` int(11) default NULL,
  `a b` int(11) default NULL,
  `id` int(11) default NULL
) TYPE=MyISAM;

--
-- Dumping data for table `t1-t2`
--

bug confirmed. But it's a not very critical issue, as there is a simple workaround: --quote-names switch of mysqldump.

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Additional info:

fixed in 4.1.2