Hi! Former MySQL Product Manager here. I'm not sure I ever looked at this issue specifically, but you are correct: the burden of breaking backwards compatibil

Hi! Former MySQL Product Manager here. I'm not sure I ever looked at this issue specifically, but you are correct: the burden of breaking backwards compatibility should be high, and supported by major use cases. To give a similar example, that I did look at: MySQL can enable more standards equivalent identifier quoting (via an SQL mode): https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/sql-mode.html#sqlmode_ansi_quotes https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/sql-mode.html#sqlmod... To enable that by default would break a lot of applications.