On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.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