Re: [PATCH] Provide support for trailing commas

Am Donnerstag, dem 08.01.2026 um 10:53 +1300 schrieb David Rowley:
> Personally, I don't want this feature. I'd rather receive an error
> message when I make silly mistakes in code that I write. If I have
> code to dynamically build an SQL statement and I have a bug that
> causes a variable that stores a column name to sometimes be an empty
> string, with your patch, I'll get an error message in all cases
> unless
> the column's position is last. I want the error at all times, not
> sometimes.

This is exactly what i initially thought when reading through this
thread. Yes, people have their arguments, but it also feels like a big
hammer for a rather small issue, looking on what technical implications
are discussed and might hit us.

In other words, I never got a single complaint from people using
PostgreSQL in the last two decades for not allowing trailing commas in
our parser. And to be honest, i never thought about this before Greg's
proposal ...


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Thanks,
    Bernd