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uuid datatype not recognized for MariaDB 10.7+

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php, sql
Domain
databases

Research direction

Start by reproducing the supplied CREATE TABLE statement through the SQL parser and inspect how datatype tokens are handled. Update recognition for MariaDB 10.7's uuid datatype, then add or run parser coverage confirming the statement is accepted.

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Description

enhancement kind/support

Since MariaDB 10.7 a column could have a datatype uuid, but this type is not recognized by the parser:

CREATE TABLE `users` (
  `id` uuid NOT NULL PRIMARY
);
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