MySQL Bugs: #5140: Describe table Does not work but show columns does

Bug #5140	Describe table Does not work but show columns does
Submitted:	22 Aug 2004 7:37	Modified:	26 Aug 2004 18:13
Reporter:	joe byers	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Query Browser	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	1.03	OS:	Windows (winxp)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
The describe table returns and error in the query browser.

How to repeat:
Try describe table db.tablename and an error occurs.

Dear User,

Thank you for your bug report!

Using 1.0.5 on windows 2000, I do not get an error but I also do not get any results.

show columns from world.City; // works
desc world.City; // doesn't produce any results

Best Regards,

I upgraded from Mysql 4.0 to 5.0 after reading new features of 4.1 and 5.0.  It seems that the describe table and create table *** like ^^^ are features added in these new release.

Describe table *** functioned properly after the upgrade.

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been committed to our
source repository of that product and will be incorporated into the
next release.

If necessary, you can access the source repository and build the latest
available version, including the bugfix, yourself. More information 
about accessing the source trees is available at
    http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Installing_source_tree.html

describe table still doesn't work in mysql query browser.  it's 4.5 years later.  why is this bug closed?