On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:18:00 -0700, Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:19:56PM -0500, Alex Beamish wrote: > > > I'm getting a frustrating error > > > > ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "(" at character 201 > > > > in a CREATE TABLE statement from an SQL script that I'm running from > > within a Perl script. When I run the same script from the command > > line, either as a regular user or as root, it works fine. > > Your SQL statements ran fine for me, so please show us a small but > complete Perl script that duplicates the problem.
Michael, Tom, Thank you both for your responses .. I discovered that, while I was editting what I thought was the running script, I was actually running an earlier (wrong) version extracted a moment earlier from the version control system, in a paralell directory. This became obvious when I deleted the offending line and the error remained exactly the same. However, I am intrigued to find out about the character offset that appears in the error. How is that calculated? This would be useful diagnostic information to have in the future. Thanks! Alex ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster