From 5cff8ad2c255b3f9b2b61ab2a453ca7e5ba4a51b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yoav Cohen <yoav@satoricyber.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:27:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] MySQL: Add support for casting using the BINARY keyword

---
 src/dialect/mod.rs        | 6 ++++++
 src/dialect/mysql.rs      | 6 ++++++
 src/parser/mod.rs         | 9 +++++++++
 tests/sqlparser_common.rs | 6 ++++++
 4 files changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/dialect/mod.rs b/src/dialect/mod.rs
index 1a416e4df..4a04b2d4f 100644
--- a/src/dialect/mod.rs
+++ b/src/dialect/mod.rs
@@ -1216,6 +1216,12 @@ pub trait Dialect: Debug + Any {
     fn supports_quote_delimited_string(&self) -> bool {
         false
     }
+
+    /// Returns true if the dialect supports casting an expression to a binary type
+    /// using the `BINARY <expr>` syntax.
+    fn supports_binary_kw_as_cast(&self) -> bool {
+        false
+    }
 }
 
 /// This represents the operators for which precedence must be defined
diff --git a/src/dialect/mysql.rs b/src/dialect/mysql.rs
index 8d2a5ad4b..84babd719 100644
--- a/src/dialect/mysql.rs
+++ b/src/dialect/mysql.rs
@@ -167,6 +167,12 @@ impl Dialect for MySqlDialect {
     fn supports_cross_join_constraint(&self) -> bool {
         true
     }
+
+    /// Deprecated functionality by MySQL but still supported
+    /// See: <https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/cast-functions.html#operator_binary>
+    fn supports_binary_kw_as_cast(&self) -> bool {
+        true
+    }
 }
 
 /// `LOCK TABLES`
diff --git a/src/parser/mod.rs b/src/parser/mod.rs
index f07e8919a..dd684c68c 100644
--- a/src/parser/mod.rs
+++ b/src/parser/mod.rs
@@ -1609,6 +1609,15 @@ impl<'a> Parser<'a> {
                 // an unary negation `NOT ('a' LIKE 'b')`. To solve this, we don't accept the
                 // `type 'string'` syntax for the custom data types at all.
                 DataType::Custom(..) => parser_err!("dummy", loc),
+                // MySQL supports using the `BINARY` keyword as a cast to binary type.
+                DataType::Binary(..) if self.dialect.supports_binary_kw_as_cast() => {
+                    Ok(Expr::Cast {
+                        kind: CastKind::Cast,
+                        expr: Box::new(parser.parse_expr()?),
+                        data_type: DataType::Binary(None),
+                        format: None,
+                    })
+                }
                 data_type => Ok(Expr::TypedString(TypedString {
                     data_type,
                     value: parser.parse_value()?,
diff --git a/tests/sqlparser_common.rs b/tests/sqlparser_common.rs
index 9f549e4d0..b4dc516cf 100644
--- a/tests/sqlparser_common.rs
+++ b/tests/sqlparser_common.rs
@@ -17972,3 +17972,9 @@ fn parse_select_parenthesized_wildcard() {
     assert_eq!(select2.projection.len(), 1);
     assert!(matches!(select2.projection[0], SelectItem::Wildcard(_)));
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn test_binary_kw_as_cast() {
+    all_dialects_where(|d| d.supports_binary_kw_as_cast())
+        .one_statement_parses_to("SELECT BINARY 1+1", "SELECT CAST(1 + 1 AS BINARY)");
+}