Re: Syntax error and reserved keywords

2012/3/14 Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>:
> Hi,
>
> 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?

Probably nobody did this work. I am thinking so on current code, this
request is relatively simple implemented - and I agree so this can be
really nice feature.

Regards

Pavel

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