is there a way to list all the reserved words in mysql using the mysql command-line utility

Question

Is there a way to list all the reserved words in MySQL(5.x) using the command-line utility (mysql)?

Answer 1

I don't think so. There's a comment on the documentation which suggests creating a table containing the words:

create table reserved_words (reserved_word varchar(50));
insert into reserved_words (reserved_word) values
('ACCESSIBLE'),
('ALTER'),
('AS'),
('BEFORE'),
('BINARY'),
('BY'),
('CASE'),
('CHARACTER'),
('COLUMN'),
('CONTINUE'),
('CROSS'),
('CURRENT_TIMESTAMP'),
('DATABASE'),
('DAY_MICROSECOND'),
('DEC'),
('DEFAULT'),
('DESC'),
('DISTINCT'),
('DOUBLE'),
('EACH'),
('ENCLOSED'),
('EXIT'),
('FETCH'),
('FLOAT8'),
('FOREIGN'),
('GRANT'),
('HIGH_PRIORITY'),
('HOUR_SECOND'),
('IN'),
('INNER'),
('INSERT'),
('INT2'),
('INT8'),
('INTO'),
('JOIN'),
('KILL'),
('LEFT'),
('LINEAR'),
('LOCALTIME'),
('LONG'),
('LOOP'),
('MATCH'),
('MEDIUMTEXT'),
('MINUTE_SECOND'),
('NATURAL'),
('NULL'),
('OPTIMIZE'),
('OR'),
('OUTER'),
('PRIMARY'),
('RANGE'),
('READ_WRITE'),
('REGEXP'),
('REPEAT'),
('RESTRICT'),
('RIGHT'),
('SCHEMAS'),
('SENSITIVE'),
('SHOW'),
('SPECIFIC'),
('SQLSTATE'),
('SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS'),
('STARTING'),
('TERMINATED'),
('TINYINT'),
('TRAILING'),
('UNDO'),
('UNLOCK'),
('USAGE'),
('UTC_DATE'),
('VALUES'),
('VARCHARACTER'),
('WHERE'),
('WRITE'),
('ZEROFILL'),
('ALL'),
('AND'),
('ASENSITIVE'),
('BIGINT'),
('BOTH'),
('CASCADE'),
('CHAR'),
('COLLATE'),
('CONSTRAINT'),
('CREATE'),
('CURRENT_TIME'),
('CURSOR'),
('DAY_HOUR'),
('DAY_SECOND'),
('DECLARE'),
('DELETE'),
('DETERMINISTIC'),
('DIV'),
('DUAL'),
('ELSEIF'),
('EXISTS'),
('FALSE'),
('FLOAT4'),
('FORCE'),
('FULLTEXT'),
('HAVING'),
('HOUR_MINUTE'),
('IGNORE'),
('INFILE'),
('INSENSITIVE'),
('INT1'),
('INT4'),
('INTERVAL'),
('ITERATE'),
('KEYS'),
('LEAVE'),
('LIMIT'),
('LOAD'),
('LOCK'),
('LONGTEXT'),
('MASTER_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT'),
('MEDIUMINT'),
('MINUTE_MICROSECOND'),
('MODIFIES'),
('NO_WRITE_TO_BINLOG'),
('ON'),
('OPTIONALLY'),
('OUT'),
('PRECISION'),
('PURGE'),
('READS'),
('REFERENCES'),
('RENAME'),
('REQUIRE'),
('REVOKE'),
('SCHEMA'),
('SELECT'),
('SET'),
('SPATIAL'),
('SQLEXCEPTION'),
('SQL_BIG_RESULT'),
('SSL'),
('TABLE'),
('TINYBLOB'),
('TO'),
('TRUE'),
('UNIQUE'),
('UPDATE'),
('USING'),
('UTC_TIMESTAMP'),
('VARCHAR'),
('WHEN'),
('WITH'),
('YEAR_MONTH'),
('ADD'),
('ANALYZE'),
('ASC'),
('BETWEEN'),
('BLOB'),
('CALL'),
('CHANGE'),
('CHECK'),
('CONDITION'),
('CONVERT'),
('CURRENT_DATE'),
('CURRENT_USER'),
('DATABASES'),
('DAY_MINUTE'),
('DECIMAL'),
('DELAYED'),
('DESCRIBE'),
('DISTINCTROW'),
('DROP'),
('ELSE'),
('ESCAPED'),
('EXPLAIN'),
('FLOAT'),
('FOR'),
('FROM'),
('GROUP'),
('HOUR_MICROSECOND'),
('IF'),
('INDEX'),
('INOUT'),
('INT'),
('INT3'),
('INTEGER'),
('IS'),
('KEY'),
('LEADING'),
('LIKE'),
('LINES'),
('LOCALTIMESTAMP'),
('LONGBLOB'),
('LOW_PRIORITY'),
('MEDIUMBLOB'),
('MIDDLEINT'),
('MOD'),
('NOT'),
('NUMERIC'),
('OPTION'),
('ORDER'),
('OUTFILE'),
('PROCEDURE'),
('READ'),
('REAL'),
('RELEASE'),
('REPLACE'),
('RETURN'),
('RLIKE'),
('SECOND_MICROSECOND'),
('SEPARATOR'),
('SMALLINT'),
('SQL'),
('SQLWARNING'),
('SQL_SMALL_RESULT'),
('STRAIGHT_JOIN'),
('THEN'),
('TINYTEXT'),
('TRIGGER'),
('UNION'),
('UNSIGNED'),
('USE'),
('UTC_TIME'),
('VARBINARY'),
('VARYING'),
('WHILE'),
('XOR')
;