It's possible to make a system versioned table without any versioning field

et @@system_versioning_alter_history=keep;

create or replace table t (

a int without system versioning

) with system versioning engine=innodb;

versioning.kevg 'innodb'                 [ fail ]

        Test ended at 2018-06-14 21:32:40

CURRENT_TEST: versioning.kevg

mysqltest: At line 82: query 'create or replace table t (

a int without system versioning

) with system versioning engine=innodb' failed: 4123: Table `t` must have at least one versioned column

set @@system_versioning_alter_history=keep;

create or replace table t (

a int

) with system versioning engine=innodb;

alter table t

change column a a int without system versioning;

show create table t;

Table	Create Table

t	CREATE TABLE `t` (

  `a` int(11) DEFAULT NULL WITHOUT SYSTEM VERSIONING

) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 WITH SYSTEM VERSIONING