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 -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php