Re: Better handling of parse errors

Can we see some sample output?

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Gavin Sherry wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Attached is a small patch to scan.l for consideration. It hands
> yyerror() the position in the query string of the token which caused a
> parse error. It is not even close to an implementation of error handling
> a-la SQL99 but it certainly makes debugging complicated queries easier.
> 
> I've done some testing and it appears to hit the offending token pretty
> accurately.
> 
> Can anyone find a way to break this? If not, I'd love to see it in 7.3.
> 
> Gavin

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