If so that is monumentally idiotic. Their parser knows where in the query in terms of lines (and thus must have some concept of the character it is on) but doesn't just *give you the frikkin character ...

Node.js version: v16.13.1 NPM version: 8.10.1 Strapi version: 4.6.0 Database: MySQL 8 Operating system: Linux Is your project Javascript or Typescript: Javascript ...

I was able to reproduce the error, and stripped away a few extra steps of the post you shared that are not strictly required to reproduce, but only if one wants to setup a full dev environment.

SELECT * FROM `the_table` WHERE `field1` LIKE 'string%' OR `field2` LIKE 'string%' OR `field3` LIKE 'string%' OR `field4` LIKE 'string%' OR `field5` LIKE 'string%' OR `field6` LIKE 'string%' OR ...

Sequences in MySQL help ensure that values aren't repeated, and many applications require database tables to have an incrementing "id" column. The MySQL syntax offers several ways to avoid repeating ...