Re: [HACKERS] Better handling of parse errors

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > ... do we want to modify every 7.2 error message?
>
> Nyet ... but I don't think tacking an offset onto the end of
> "parse error at or near foo" messages is likely to cause the
> sort of generalized havoc you suggest ...

In that case, attached is a patch which locates the beginning of the
offending token more efficiently (per your suggestion of using
scanbuf). The new patch does the same as before:

template1=# select * frum pg_class;
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "frum" at character 10

It also implement's Tom's suggestion:

template1=# select * from pg_class where\g
ERROR: parse: parse error at end of input

Gavin