Nevertheless, I've seen several instances of people not understanding
that the "<*>" was added to the statement by DBD::Oracle as a marker
when it reports the error.

Changing it to something unambiguous would help.

Tim.

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 05:42:17PM +0800, Paul Gallagher wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> I don't think <*> is really an issue ... I understood Mike to be flagging
> "staion_id" as the probable typo (hence ORA-00904), not <*>.
> Paul
> http://tardate.blogspot.com
> 
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 07:44:33PM -0400, John Scoles wrote:
> > > No the <*> is DBI way of pointing to where the error is.
> >
> > Seems like a common misunderstanding.
> >
> > Perhaps the "<*>" should be changed to something like "<ERROR NEAR HERE>"
> >
> > Tim.
> >

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