Re: IN clause behaving badly with missing comma and line break

> On Jan 18, 2023, at 11:06 AM, Francisco Olarte <folarte@peoplecall.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 16:21, Philip Semanchuk
> <philip@americanefficient.com> wrote:
> 
>> .... We’ve adopted a formatting standard that helps us to avoid surprises due to missing commas. We put one string literal on each line and place the commas all in the same column with a significant amount of white space to the left of the commas. With this safeguard in place, it’s very easy to spot a missing comma.
>> 
>> WHERE t IN ('a'      ,
>>            'foo'    ,
>>            'bar'    ,
>>            )
> 
> I believe that one is a syntax error ( last comma ).


Ooops, yes, thanks for catching that. I spend about half of my time in Python where that trailing comma is acceptable and idiomatic. Not so much in SQL. :-)