BUG #2224: unlogical syntax error

"Hervé Hénoch" <h.henoch@isc84.org> writes:

CETLOG: statement: PREPARE <unnamed> AS SELECT adm_pat."nip", id_caisse
caisse FROM adm_pat WHERE nip = '20020523'

CETERROR: syntax error at or near "caisse" at character 33

"AS" before a column alias is not optional in Postgres.

regards, tom lane

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:47:10AM +0000, Herv Hnoch wrote:

CETLOG: statement: PREPARE <unnamed> AS SELECT adm_pat."nip", id_caisse
caisse FROM adm_pat WHERE nip = '20020523'

CETERROR: syntax error at or near "caisse" at character 33

Are you writing this query or is JDBC generating it? The AS keyword
is required for column aliases; its absence is causing the syntax
error.

test=> CREATE TABLE foo (abc text);
test=> SELECT abc AS xyz FROM foo;
xyz
-----
(0 rows)

test=> SELECT abc xyz FROM foo;
ERROR: syntax error at or near "xyz" at character 12
LINE 1: SELECT abc xyz FROM foo;
^

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Michael Fuhr

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On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 08:53:44AM +0100, Hnoch Herv wrote:

Thank for you response .... I have never written this query : I think it
is JDBC that have generated it ... My query (written by me) is :

select id_caisse as caisse from FROM adm_pat WHERE nip = '20020523'

I know I have to use "as" statement ... I'd never disturb you for a
simple syntax error ...

The above query does have a syntax error ("from FROM"), although
the query in your original report looked correct.

Jdbc version : jdbc3 8.1.404

I downloaded postgresql-8.1-404.jdbc3.jar onto a Solaris 9 box
running PostgreSQL 8.1.2 and wrote a test program to run your
original query:

select id_caisse as caisse from adm_pat where nip = '20020523'

The query ran successfully and logged the following:

LOG: statement: PREPARE <unnamed> AS select id_caisse as caisse from adm_pat where nip = '20020523'
LOG: statement: <BIND>
LOG: statement: EXECUTE <unnamed> [PREPARE: select id_caisse as caisse from adm_pat where nip = '20020523']

The very stange think is, if I write :

select nip, id_caisse as caisse from FROM adm_pat WHERE nip = '20020523'

There is no syntax error !!!!!

There should be a syntax error due to "from FROM"; please post the
actual queries you're running. It might also be helpful if you
could post a simple but complete program so we can see everything
you're doing. You might also try asking in the pgsql-jdbc list to
see if anybody there has heard of this problem.

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Michael Fuhr