diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e3ed61b..1e44619 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Sat Aug 21 21:21:56 CDT 2004	Jeff Smith <whydoubt@yahoo.com>
 	* src/libmdb/file.c: Clean up a bug in the new mdb_get_single/double
 	* src/libmdb/data.c: Clean out some stale code
+	* src/sql/parser.y: Simplify a couple of rules
 
 Thu Aug 19 21:37:21 CDT 2004	Jeff Smith <whydoubt@yahoo.com>
 	* configure.in:
diff --git a/src/sql/parser.y b/src/sql/parser.y
index fa67664..5a2d2f3 100644
--- a/src/sql/parser.y
+++ b/src/sql/parser.y
@@ -139,8 +139,7 @@ database:
 	;
 
 table:
-	NAME { mdb_sql_add_table(_mdb_sql(NULL), $1); free($1); }
-	| IDENT { mdb_sql_add_table(_mdb_sql(NULL), $1); free($1); }
+	identifier { mdb_sql_add_table(_mdb_sql(NULL), $1); free($1); }
 	;
 
 column_list:
@@ -150,8 +149,7 @@ column_list:
 	;
 	 
 column:
-	NAME { mdb_sql_add_column(_mdb_sql(NULL), $1); free($1); }
-	| IDENT { mdb_sql_add_column(_mdb_sql(NULL), $1); free($1); }
+	identifier { mdb_sql_add_column(_mdb_sql(NULL), $1); free($1); }
 	;
 
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