Ti mancano punto e virgola, virgole e anche dopo aver corretto la sintassi non è ancora una buona idea selezionare max dalla tabella ogni volta solo per inserire un'altra riga in un ciclo.
Eliminalo e usa i generatori da http:/ /use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2011-07-30/mysql-row-generator :
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW generator_16
AS SELECT 0 n UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 2 UNION ALL
SELECT 3 UNION ALL SELECT 4 UNION ALL SELECT 5 UNION ALL
SELECT 6 UNION ALL SELECT 7 UNION ALL SELECT 8 UNION ALL
SELECT 9 UNION ALL SELECT 10 UNION ALL SELECT 11 UNION ALL
SELECT 12 UNION ALL SELECT 13 UNION ALL SELECT 14 UNION ALL
SELECT 15;
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW generator_256
AS SELECT ( ( hi.n << 4 ) | lo.n ) AS n
FROM generator_16 lo, generator_16 hi;
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW generator_4k
AS SELECT ( ( hi.n << 8 ) | lo.n ) AS n
FROM generator_256 lo, generator_16 hi;
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW generator_64k
AS SELECT ( ( hi.n << 8 ) | lo.n ) AS n
FROM generator_256 lo, generator_256 hi;
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW generator_1m
AS SELECT ( ( hi.n << 16 ) | lo.n ) AS n
FROM generator_64k lo, generator_16 hi;
E se per qualsiasi motivo hai davvero bisogno di una tabella di numeri, fallo:
INSERT INTO numbers(number)
SELECT n FROM generator_64k WHERE n < 64000