Re: BUG #16058: show session_user shows a not clear error message - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 08:26:00AM +0000, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
> Actual
> postgres=# show session_user;
> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "session_user" at character 6
> STATEMENT:  show session_user;
> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "session_user"
> LINE 1: show session_user;
>
> Expected
> postgres=# show session_user;
> ERROR:  unrecognized configuration parameter "session_user"
> STATEMENT:  show session_user;

This boils down to how we would need to handle reserved keyword
parsing for the SHOW command, which would cause reduce/reduce
conflicts with bison as it uses var_name (with ColId).  I would not
bother much with that to be honest.
--
Michael