On ons, 2012-03-14 at 14:58 +0100, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> A colleague came to me to express his surprise about this quite simple
> use case:
>
> =# alter table toto add column user text;
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "user"
> LINE 1: alter table toto add column user text;
>
> Is there a reason for us not to add an HINT: "user" is a reserved
> keyword or something like that, other than nobody having been interested
> in doing the work?
If that were easily possible, we could just recognize 'user' as an
identifier in this context and avoid the issue altogether. But it's
not.
