generate days from date range

Question

I would like to run a query like

select ... as days where `date` is between \'2010-01-20\' and \'2010-01-24\'

And return data like:

Answer 1

One more solution for mysql 8.0.1 and mariadb 10.2.2 using recursive common table expressions:

with recursive dates as (
    select '2010-01-20' as date
    union all
    select date + interval 1 day from dates where date < '2010-01-24'
)
select * from dates;