Re: Patch for Improved Syntax Error Reporting - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Patch for Improved Syntax Error Reporting
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Msg-id 20245.996849090@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Patch for Improved Syntax Error Reporting  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Patch for Improved Syntax Error Reporting  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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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.

            regards, tom lane

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