I have a rudimentary knowledge of MySQL Internals, so I am going to take a guess why it has taken so long. They want to implement this feature server side, whi

I have a rudimentary knowledge of MySQL Internals, so I am going to take a guess why it has taken so long. They want to implement this feature server side, which means that they either have to add: (1) A new server setting (SET SHOW_CREATE_TABLE_FORMAT = Blah) -or- (2) New syntax (SHOW CREATE TABLE NOAUTOINC mytable). Adding new settings is always evil, and adds to product confusion/complexity. Adding new syntax is a bit evil in MySQL's case since they use a generic yacc parser, and might have to add a new reserved word (truthfully, I'm not 100% sure on that one). There is also a preference to only add reserved words to major new versions.