Review SQL errors for `select existing_column from...`

Context

This ticket is related to https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb/pull/13631.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open the SQL console
2. Enter: SELECT cartodb_id FROM or SELECT 1 as X FROM
3. Check the SQL Error

Current Result

Now it returns an Error in SQL query: ... error.

Expected result

They should return a The column does not exist warning. This may be related with the Maps API responses.

[ramiroaznar]

@Jesus89 @ivanmalagon After talking to @rjimenezda, we are going to close this issue. Better errors should be given to explain to the users how to remake their SQL queries. But this could be added to bigger project as started here.

[ivanmalagon]

So… I’ll leave it here for the next responder.

The issue is

When a user wants to filter only certain columns, they must show up in the list of columns.

So if I edit the SQL and apply…

… even if the layer is wrong (we can’t visualize the points because there are no geom columns, users expect those columns to appear in the list.

It’s a bit tricky since the layer is wrong and that won’t have the same behaviour for all combinations.

I leave ongoing work on the branch https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb/tree/13642-sql-messages

Bear in mind the acceptance of previous tasks related to this one: https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb/pull/13631 https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb/pull/13628 (Acceptance of user flow)