SQL_MODEs related to parsing are not applied during execution of the actual statement under SET STATEMENT .. FOR

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t1;

# Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.18 sec)

# Set sql_mode = 'ANSI_QUOTES' to allow the initial parsing of the whole SET STATEMENT .. FOR

SET sql_mode='ANSI_QUOTES';

# Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

# But for the *actual* CREATE statement we unset the sql_mode, so 

# the execution should fail with the syntax error

SET STATEMENT sql_mode='' FOR CREATE TABLE "t1" (i INT);

# Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.50 sec)

# ... but it doesn't.

# Compare with the usual behavior:

SET sql_mode = '';

# Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

CREATE TABLE "t1" (i INT);

# ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near '"t1" (i INT)' at line 1

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS count;

# Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.21 sec)

# IGNORE_SPACE mode should prevent creation of the `count` table:

SET STATEMENT sql_mode='IGNORE_SPACE' FOR CREATE TABLE count (i INT);

# Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.81 sec)

# ... but it doesn't.

# Compare with the usual behavior:

SET sql_mode='IGNORE_SPACE';

# Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

CREATE TABLE count (i INT);

# ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near 'count (i INT)' at line 1