Ronald,
Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 3:11:16 PM, you wrote:

RL> When testing some of our Perl/DBI code, we made a couple of tables with
RL> numeric names (e.g. test.1 test.2 etc), because the code we're making has to
RL> be able to handle them correctly. It does, w/o any problem, but mysqldump
RL> doesn't: I get a message "mysqldump: Got error: 1064: You have an error in
RL> your SQL syntax near '1 READ /*!32311 LOCAL */' at line 1 when doing LOCK
RL> TABLES" while dumping "test.1".
RL> The syntax for mysqldump is:
RL> mysqldump --quick --lock-tables --add-drop-table --user=root test

RL> mysqldump  Ver 8.14 Distrib 3.23.41, for redhat-linux-gnu (i386)

RL> If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask - I'm on the list and will
RL> be watching this thread.

Names can't consist only of digits! There is a mention about it in our
manual:
       http://www.mysql.com/doc/L/e/Legal_names.html

RL> Thanx!
RL> Ronald





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