'max_sp_recursion_depth' variable doesn't appear to set causing "Recursive limit 0 was exceeded" error – Phpmyadmin

Quick note, I know this question has been asked here, but the ‘answer’ gives an alternative which doesn’t involve recursion. I want to get recursion working. Here’s some code I wrote to demonstrate the problem:

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE `test` (x INT)
BEGIN

  SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE 'max_sp_recursion_depth';

  IF x = 0 THEN
    SELECT 1;
  ELSE
    CALL `test`(x-1);
  END IF;

END

Returns:

+------------------------+-------+
| Variable_name          | Value |
+------------------------+-------+
| max_sp_recursion_depth | 64    |
+------------------------+-------+
1 row in set (0.001 sec)

ERROR 1456 (HY000) at line 43 in file: 'workspace.sql': Recursive limit 0 (as set by the max_sp_recursion_depth variable) was exceeded for routine test

What I’ve tried

I will update this as I try more things:

• setting the variable via the MariaDB CLI
• setting the variable via PHPMyAdmin
• restarting MariaDB
• restarted the entire server
• restarted my computer (currently running in a development environment on my mac) and the variable has reset to 0