2012/3/14 Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>:
> 2012/3/14 Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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?
>
> Probably nobody did this work. I am thinking so on current code, this
> request is relatively simple implemented - and I agree so this can be
> really nice feature.
>
but it is not too simple as I though
this message coming from scanner_yyerror - and forwarding hint into
this "callback" routine is not trivial - more - this message is used
when word is reserved keyword and must not be and when word is just
wrong reserved keyword.
Regards
Pavel
> Regards
>
> Pavel
>
>>
>> Regards,
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>> Dimitri Fontaine
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