Question

The query:

CREATE TABLE unapprovedteaminfo (
UnapprovedTeamInfoID        BIGSERIAL NOT NULL,
EmailVerified               boolean NOT NULL DEFAULT FALSE,
VerificationCode            char (20) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (UnapprovedTeamInfoID)
);

The error:

ERROR: syntax error at or near "(" Position: 160 [ERROR:0, SQLSTATE:42601]

Might I add that pointing out the location of the error by “position” (instead of column and row) is unbelievably annoying?

Answer 1

Nothing is wrong with the DDL query. I just executed it without problem in my 9.1.5 installation.

The reason must be something that is not in your question.

As an aside: I assume you are aware, that unquoted identifiers are cast to lower case.