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# Catalog-Specific Functions and Variables

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Catalogs are planned for an upcoming release, and don't yet appear in any current releases.
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### Catalog Functions

#### catalog()

\`catalog()

## returns the name of the current catalog.\`

```
MariaDB [def.test]> select catalog();
+-----------+
| catalog() |
+-----------+
| def       |
+-----------+
```

### Catalog Variables

#### @@catalogs

One can check if a server supports catalogs with:

```sql
SELECT @@catalogs;
+------------+
| @@catalogs |
+------------+
|          1 |
+------------+
```

1 means that the server is configured for catalogs.

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