Re: Patch for Improved Syntax Error Reporting

> Maybe I'm confused, but I don't think any of the proposals would require
> you to do any of those things.  The only case that requires any
> significant new effort from the client app is where it reformats queries
> before sending them on to the parser ... but that is knowledge you've
> already built into the client, no?  You just have to remember what you
> did so that you can map a backend error index into the original text.

That seems particularly hard.  If you collapse spaces and stuff, it is
hard to figure out how it was originally formatted.  I would just return
the collapsed version locating the error.

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