Re: [INTERFACES] parser: parse error at or near... with create table

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: "Mengelbier, Magnus" <Magnus(dot)Mengelbier(at)clinicaldatacare(dot)com>
Cc: "'pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] parser: parse error at or near... with create table
Date: 1999-07-30 15:29:37
Message-ID: 37A1C4E1.F56DED39@alumni.caltech.edu
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> We wonder if any one has experience from an error (which is probably a
> newbie misstake on our part) that pops up when we are trying to create a
> simple table with pgAccess in a postgreSQL database. We have recieved the
> same type of error on more complex table builds. The message is ...
> Error executing query
> create table "asdfs" ("fds" serial NOT NULL )
> PostgreSQL error message:
> Error: parser: parse error at or near "not"
> PostgreSQL status: PGRES_FATAL_ERROR

By definition, the SERIAL type is NOT NULL, so I didn't bother
allowing that clause in the parser. If you would like to see this
feature documented, send patches on docs/src/sgml/datatype.sgml. Or
maybe we should allow it, but it *is* redundant ;)

- Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California

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