diff --git a/src/sqlparser.rs b/src/sqlparser.rs
index edfa0c573..169e1cba2 100644
--- a/src/sqlparser.rs
+++ b/src/sqlparser.rs
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ use super::dialect::keywords;
 use super::dialect::Dialect;
 use super::sqlast::*;
 use super::sqltokenizer::*;
+use std::error::Error;
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
 pub enum ParserError {
@@ -47,6 +48,21 @@ impl From<TokenizerError> for ParserError {
     }
 }
 
+impl std::fmt::Display for ParserError {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        write!(
+            f,
+            "sql parser error: {}",
+            match self {
+                ParserError::TokenizerError(s) => s,
+                ParserError::ParserError(s) => s,
+            }
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+impl Error for ParserError {}
+
 /// SQL Parser
 pub struct Parser {
     tokens: Vec<Token>,