Question

Really getting into MySQL and one thought I’ve had on mastering one aspect of it is to gather a complete listing of MySQL words. One example of this might be the Reserved Words list, though it appears that’s not a complete list; example: CONCAT, CRC32, etc.

Bizarre as it may seem, I was thinking that such a list might exist, or that there might even be a query that would yield it, and/or a way to extract it from the source code of MySQL.

Answer 1

It is a non-scientific method, but what I would do is:

• extract all strings from Native_func_registry func_array. Lookup for it sql/item_create.cc , e.g in

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mysql/mysql-server/mysql-trunk/view/head:/sql/item_create.cc

Those should cover builtin functions.

• extract strings from ‘symbols’ and ‘functions’ in lexer :

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mysql/mysql-server/mysql-trunk/view/head:/sql/lex.h

• extract symbols from bison input http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mysql/mysql-server/mysql-trunk/view/head:/sql/sql_yacc.yy from lines

  %token SOMETOKEN

except when tokens have _SYM suffix (they are covered by sql/lex.h)

Combine all of those, and the resulting set might come near 🙂