'total' appears to have become a keyword but is not documented as such

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I have a table which contains total as a column name, this seems to cause all kinds of problems.

I can retrieve it by escaping

select `total' from bills

however I cannot use SUM anymore

select SUM(total) from bills

or

select SUM(total) from bills

both throw and error

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This was caused by a poor query. Not an actual problem.