From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199807250018.UAA02089@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Re: [INTERFACES] ODBC Driver -- Access Order By problem
	solved!!!
In-Reply-To: <v02140b2ab1de7469afee@[207.152.64.133]> from Richard Lynch at
	"Jul 24, 1998  5:52:43 pm"
To: lynch@lscorp.com (Richard Lynch)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 20:18:43 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org (PostgreSQL-development)
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> I especially hate that it doesn't even say "this part is bogus" sometimes.
> It says "error near 'from'".  *WHICH* from.  I could easily have 3 or 4 in
> even the simplest query.  And god forbid it says "error near ','".  How
> useless is that?!
> 
> Okay, enough bitching, I'll be positive:
> psql would be infinitely nicer if it dumped out the query and indicated the
> EXACT location of the problem.
> 

New 6.4 psql help will show:
	
	test=> \h select
	Command: select
	Description: retrieve tuples
	Syntax:
	SELECT [DISTINCT [ON attrN]] expr1 [AS attr1], ...exprN
	        [INTO [TABLE] class_name]
	        [FROM from_list]
	        [WHERE qual]
	        [GROUP BY group_list]
	        [HAVING having_clause]
	        [ORDER BY attr1 [ASC|DESC] [USING op1], ...attrN ]
	        [UNION [ALL] SELECT ...];
	

Removed <> around user-supplied values, and uppercase the reserved words
to make things clear.  I don't think there is a need to do this on the
manual pages because we have bolding.  Comments?


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