Syntax error and reserved keywords

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?

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support