> I especially hate that it doesn't even say "this part is bogus" sometimes.
> It says "error near 'from'". *WHICH* from. I could easily have 3 or 4 in
> even the simplest query. And god forbid it says "error near ','". How
> useless is that?!
>
> Okay, enough bitching, I'll be positive:
> psql would be infinitely nicer if it dumped out the query and indicated the
> EXACT location of the problem.
>
New 6.4 psql help will show:
test=> \h select
Command: select
Description: retrieve tuples
Syntax:
SELECT [DISTINCT [ON attrN]] expr1 [AS attr1], ...exprN
[INTO [TABLE] class_name]
[FROM from_list]
[WHERE qual]
[GROUP BY group_list]
[HAVING having_clause]
[ORDER BY attr1 [ASC|DESC] [USING op1], ...attrN ]
[UNION [ALL] SELECT ...];
Removed <> around user-supplied values, and uppercase the reserved words
to make things clear. I don't think there is a need to do this on the
manual pages because we have bolding. Comments?
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