Re: alter table add x wrong error position

On Sunday, January 7, 2024, jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> hi.
> Maybe this is a small printout err_position bug.
>
> create table atacc2 ( test int, a int, b int) ;
> success tests:
> alter table atacc2 add CONSTRAINT x PRIMARY KEY (id, b );
> alter table atacc2 add CONSTRAINT x PRIMARY KEY (id, b a);
> alter table atacc2 add CONSTRAINT x PRIMARY KEYa (id, b);
>
> tests have problem:
> alter table atacc2 add constraints x unique (test, a, b);
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "("
> LINE 1: alter table atacc2 add constraints x unique (test, a, b);
>
> ^
> ADD either following with the optional keyword "COLUMN" or
> "CONSTRAINT" as the doc.
> so I should expect the '^' point at "constraints"?
>

It’s finding “… add column_name data_type column_constraint” then dies at
the parenthesis. So indeed the care t should be pointing where it probably
is, at the parenthesis that the error is referring to.

David J.