Re: Syntax error and reserved keywords

On ons, 2012-03-14 at 14:58 +0100, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> 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?

If that were easily possible, we could just recognize 'user' as an
identifier in this context and avoid the issue altogether.  But it's
not.