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Aliases without AS keyword

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
mysql, php, sql

Research direction

Start with the bin/lint-query entry point and reproduce the issue using SELECT 1 name and SELECT 1 AS name. Trace how select expressions and aliases are parsed, then verify that both MySQL forms are accepted by the parser and linter.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

bug

Having the AS keyword in the select expression is option, following both should work:

SELECT 1 AS name;
SELECT 1 name;

But the shorter variant fails:

$ ./bin/lint-query --query 'SELECT 1 name'
#1: Unrecognized keyword. (near "name" at position 9)

MySQL docs: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/select.html#idm139723195268992

See also https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/13541

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