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Is "OFFSET" a reserved word?

From
Mark Dalphin
Date:
Hi,

My old DB schema which worked up thru Postgresql ver 6.4.2 has been broken in
ver 6.5.1 (running on an SGI).

CREATE TABLE Seq (
    .....
    Offset int not null,
    ....
);

now fails with a parse error at 'offset'. I don't see this word listed in the
reserved words page. When I change the word to SeqOffset, the schema works fine.

Mark

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Re: [GENERAL] Is "OFFSET" a reserved word?

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
> Hi,
>
> My old DB schema which worked up thru Postgresql ver 6.4.2 has been broken in
> ver 6.5.1 (running on an SGI).
>
> CREATE TABLE Seq (
>     .....
>     Offset int not null,
>     ....
> );
>
> now fails with a parse error at 'offset'. I don't see this word listed in the
> reserved words page. When I change the word to SeqOffset, the schema works fine.

Yes, now OFFSET is reserved:

SELECT * FROM tab LIMIT 100 OFFSET 3

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