| Bug #6925 | Comment/*COMMENT*/is not a separator | ||
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| Submitted: | 1 Dec 2004 20:07 | Modified: | 7 May 2005 23:14 |
| Reporter: | Peter Gulutzan | Email Updates: | |
| Status: | Closed | Impact on me: | |
| Category: | MySQL Server | Severity: | S3 (Non-critical) |
| Version: | 5.0.2-alpha-debug | OS: | Linux (SuSE 8.2) |
| Assigned to: | Antony Curtis | CPU Architecture: | Any |
[1 Dec 2004 20:35]
MySQL Verification Team
Thank you for the bug report.
[7 May 2005 23:14]
Antony Curtis
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.
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Description: From the SQL:2003 standard document: "SQL text containing one or more instances of <comment> is equivalent to the same SQL text with the <comment> replaced with <newline>." Further, comments are described as "separators". But MySQL treats /**/ as if it's not there at all, that is, it is not a separator. So abc/**/def looks like abcdef instead of abc<newline>def. Therefore comments don't separate tokens (bug), and -- comments aren't ended by /**/ comments (bug). How to repeat: mysql> select * from t where s1/**/is/**/null; ERROR 1054 (42S22): Unknown column 's1isnull' in 'where clause' mysql> create table t (s1 int -- /**/ ) -> ; ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; ...