> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Seems we could easily have the backend return a string with three tokens
> > before/after the syntax error, and that would be enough.
>
> I strongly disagree. If the "three tokens" are something like ")))",
> how's that going to help you figure out where you tanked your
> parenthesization in a huge query with dozens of parentheses? See also
> the points I made concerning errors masked by comment removal.
I strongly disagree too. :-) (See, I can use the word "strongly" too.)
Anyway, you aren't going to have three parens on both sides of the
error, are you? I didn't say it was perfect, just easier for the client
coders.
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