diff --git a/libraries/common.inc.php b/libraries/common.inc.php
index 2fe01aaba5..0f925b7030 100644
--- a/libraries/common.inc.php
+++ b/libraries/common.inc.php
@@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ if (! defined('PMA_MINIMUM_COMMON')) {
         /**
          * Initializes the SQL parsing library.
          */
-        include_once './libraries/sql-parser/autoload.php';
+        include_once SQL_PARSER_AUTOLOAD;
 
         // Loads closest context to this version.
         SqlParser\Context::loadClosest('MySql' . PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION);
diff --git a/libraries/vendor_config.php b/libraries/vendor_config.php
index b9c25c6c1b..70871509b6 100644
--- a/libraries/vendor_config.php
+++ b/libraries/vendor_config.php
@@ -84,9 +84,13 @@ define('TCPDF_INC', './libraries/tcpdf/tcpdf.php');
  */
 define('PHPSECLIB_INC_DIR', './libraries/phpseclib/');
 
+/**
+ * Path to the udan11/sql-parser. Useful when you want to use system version.
+ */
+define('SQL_PARSER_AUTOLOAD', './libraries/sql-parser/autoload.php');
+
 /**
  * Avoid referring to nonexistent files (causes warnings when open_basedir
  * is used)
  */
 define('K_PATH_IMAGES', '');
-