How to determine current delimiter in MySQL?

Question

Is there a way to determine the current delimiter in MySQL?

The delimiter can be set like this: DELIMITER //

Or like this: \\d //

But how do you get the current delimiter?

I tried browsing the results of SHOW STATUS and SHOW VARIABLES to no avail.

Answer 1

If you just want to know which delimiter is set right now \\s will show you that:

Using delimiter: //

Answer 2

The delimiter is not a keyword or command on the server (it's not even a reserved keyword), so there is absolutely no way to get it back from the server (since the server doesn't know about it)

It's used by the client (and the client must support it), and only by the client.

If you try to send a DELIMITER // from a client that doesn't support it, you'll get a syntax error