Set DATE attribute to default to some fixed date

Question

Trying to create a table that has DATE attribute release .

I want to default this date to some fixed date (specifically 9999-12-31 ) but I get an SQL syntax error using the following method:

CREATE TABLE price(
    ...
    release DATE DEFAULT '99991231',
    ...
);

The little searching I've done has only shown me how to default to current date or some form of a dynamic date but I'm just looking for a way to default to a fixed date.

EDIT more detail:

CREATE TABLE game(gid INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
               name VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL,
               release DATE NOT NULL DEFAULT '9999-12-31',
               platform VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL,
               released BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE,
               PRIMARY KEY(gid)
              );

I get the following error after issuing the command: mysql -u root -p trade < game.sql

 ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 1: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'release DATE NOT NULL DEFAULT '9999-12-31',
               platform VARCHAR(' at line 3

where trade is the name of an empty database and mysql --version yields the output mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.47, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 6.3

Answer 1

Here a sample with backticks:

CREATE TABLE `r` (
  `id` INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `release` DATE NOT NULL DEFAULT '9999-01-01',
  `comment` VARCHAR(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=INNODB AUTO_INCREMENT=1234567892 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;