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The lexer incorrectly tokenizes hex string literals x'...' as two separate tokens (keyword x + string '...'),
causing the builder to produce invalid SQL x AS '...' instead of x'...'.
This affects CREATE TABLE statements with binary column defaults on MariaDB 11.8+ which outputs DEFAULT x'...'
in SHOW CREATE TABLE.
The b'...' binary string literal format is handled correctly — only x'...' is affected.
To Reproduce
$parser = newParser("CREATE TABLE test (IP binary(16) NOT NULL DEFAULT x'00000000000000000000000000000000')");
echo$parser->statements[0]->build();
// Output: ... DEFAULT x AS `00000000000000000000000000000000` // Expected: ... DEFAULT x'00000000000000000000000000000000'
Affected versions
Both 5.11.x and master.
Root cause
The Lexer's number parsing state machine has states 7-9 for b'...' binary literals, but no equivalent states for
x'...' hex string literals. The x is instead matched as a keyword.
Activity
Merge #650 - Fix hex string literal (x'...') parsing in CREATE TABLE …