无意中发现authors在MySQL是保留字，执行show authors得到如下结果
| Name | Location | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Albert Chin-A-Young | Tru64 port, large file support, better TCP wrappers support | |
| Alexander (Alexi) Ivanov | St. Petersburg, Russia | Replication |
| Alexander (Bar) Barkov | Izhevsk, Russia | Unicode and character sets (4.1) |
| Alexander (Salle) Keremidarski | Sofia, Bulgaria | Bug fixing |
| Alexander (Sasha) Pachev | Provo, UT, USA | Statement-based replication, SHOW CREATE TABLE, mysql-bench |
| Alexander Nozdrin | Moscow, Russia | Bug fixing (Stored Procedures, 5.0) |
| Alexey Botchkov (Holyfoot) | Izhevsk, Russia | GIS extensions (4.1), embedded server (4.1), precision math (5.0) |
| Alexey Stroganov (Ranger) | Lugansk, Ukraine | Testing - Benchmarks |
| Alexis Mikhailov | User-defined functions | |
| Andreas F. Bobak | AGGREGATE extension to user-defined functions | |
| Andrei Elkin | Espoo, Finland | Replication |
| Andrey Hristov | Walldorf, Germany | Event scheduler (5.1) |
| Antony T. Curtis | Norwalk, CA, USA | Parser, port to OS/2, storage engines and some random stuff |
| Arjen Lentz | Brisbane, Australia | Documentation (2001-2004), Dutch error messages, LOG2() |
| Benjamin Pflugmann | Extended MERGE storage engine to handle INSERT | |
| Brian (Krow) Aker | Seattle, WA, USA | Architecture, archive, federated, bunch of little stuff :) |
| Carsten Segieth (Pino) | Fredersdorf, Germany | Testing - Server |
| David Axmark | Uppsala, Sweden | Small stuff long time ago, Monty ripped it out! |
| Dmitri Lenev | Moscow, Russia | Time zones support (4.1), Triggers (5.0) |
| Elliot Murphy | Cocoa, FL, USA | Replication and backup |
| Eric Herman | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Bug fixing - federated |
| Gianmassimo Vigazzola | Initial Windows port | |
| Greg (Groggy) Lehey | Uchunga, SA, Australia | Backup |
| Guilhem Bichot | Bordeaux, France | Replication (since 4.0) |
| Hakan Küçükyılmaz | Walldorf, Germany | Testing - Server |
| Igor Romanenko | mysqldump | |
| Ingo Strüwing | Berlin, Germany | Bug fixing |
| Irena Pancirov | Port to Windows with Borland compiler | |
| Jan Pazdziora | Czech sorting order | |
| Jani Tolonen | Helsinki, Finland | mysqlimport, extensions to command-line clients, PROCEDURE ANALYSE() |
| Jim Winstead Jr. | Los Angeles, CA, USA | Bug fixing |
| John Birrell | Emulation of pthread_mutex() for OS/2 | |
| Jonas Oreland | Stockholm, Sweden | NDB Cluster, Online Backup, lots of other things |
| Jonathan (Jeb) Miller | Kyle, TX, USA | Testing - Cluster, Replication |
| Jorge del Conde | Mexico City, Mexico | Windows development |
| Joshua Chamas | Cupertino, CA, USA | Concurrent insert, extended date syntax |
| Kelly Long | Denver, CO, USA | Pool Of Threads |
| Kent Boortz | Orebro, Sweden | Test platform, and general build stuff |
| Konstantin Osipov | Moscow, Russia | Prepared statements (4.1), Cursors (5.0) |
| Kristian Nielsen | Copenhagen, Denmark | General build stuff |
| Lars Thalmann | Stockholm, Sweden | Replication and cluster development |
| Lenz Grimmer | Hamburg, Germany | Production (build and release) engineering |
| Magnus Svensson | Öregrund, Sweden | NDB Cluster: Integration into MySQL, test framework |
| Marc Alff | Denver, CO, USA | Signal, Resignal, Performance schema |
| Marc Liyanage | Created Mac OS X packages | |
| Martin Sköld | Stockholm, Sweden | NDB Cluster: Unique indexes, integration into MySQL |
| Mats Kindahl | Storvreta, Sweden | Replication |
| Matt Wagner | Northfield, MN, USA | Bug fixing |
| Matthias Leich | Berlin, Germany | Testing - Server |
| Mattias Jonsson | Uppsala, Sweden | Partitioning |
| Michael (Monty) Widenius | Tusby, Finland | Lead developer and main author |
| Miguel Solorzano | Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil | Windows development, Windows NT service |
| Mikael Ronström | Stockholm, Sweden | NDB Cluster, Partitioning (5.1), Optimizations |
| Nikolay Grishakin | Austin, TX, USA | Testing - Server |
| Oleksandr Byelkin | Lugansk, Ukraine | Query Cache (4.0), Subqueries (4.1), Views (5.0) |
| Omer BarNir | Sunnyvale, CA, USA | Testing (sometimes) and general QA stuff |
| Patrick Galbraith | Sharon, NH | Federated Engine, mysqlslap |
| Pekka Nouisiainen | Stockholm, Sweden | NDB Cluster: BLOB support, character set support, ordered indexes |
| Per Eric Olsson | Testing of dynamic record format | |
| Per-Erik Martin | Uppsala, Sweden | Stored Procedures (5.0) |
| Peter Zaitsev | Tacoma, WA, USA | SHA1(), AES_ENCRYPT(), AES_DECRYPT(), bug fixing |
| Petr Chardin | Moscow, Russia | Instance Manager (5.0), Server log tables (5.1) |
| Punita Srivastava | Austin, TX, USA | Testing - Merlin |
| Reggie Burnett | Nashville, TN, USA | Windows development, Connectors |
| Serge Kozlov | Velikie Luki, Russia | Testing - Cluster |
| Sergei Golubchik | Kerpen, Germany | Full-text search, precision math |
| Sergey Vojtovich | Izhevsk, Russia | Plugins infrastructure (5.1) |
| Sinisa Milivojevic | Larnaca, Cyprus | UNION (4.0), Subqueries in FROM clause (4.1), many other features |
| TAMITO | The _MB character set macros and UJIS and SJIS character sets | |
| Tim Bunce | mysqlhotcopy | |
| Timothy Smith | Auckland, New Zealand | Dynamic character sets, parts of the build system, libmysqld |
| Tomas Ulin | Stockholm, Sweden | NDB Cluster: Configuration, installation |
| Tõnu Samuel | VIO interface, other miscellaneous features | |
| Venu Anuganti | Client/server protocol (4.1) | |
| Wei He | Chinese (GBK) character set | |
| Wei-Jou Chen | Chinese (Big5) character set | |
| Yuri Dario | OS/2 port | |
| Yves Carlier | mysqlaccess | |
| Zarko Mocnik | Sorting for Slovenian language | |
| Zeev Suraski | FROM_UNIXTIME(), ENCRYPT() |
里面有不少俄罗斯人啊， 相对之下中国人名太少了