alter table modify syntax error in MySql

Question

I'm trying to use a very basic alter table command to position a column after another column.

mysql> describe car_table;
+---------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+---------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| car_id | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| vin | varchar(17) | YES | | NULL | |
| color | varchar(10) | YES | | NULL | |
| year | decimal(4,0) | YES | | NULL | |
| make | varchar(10) | YES | | NULL | |
| model | varchar(20) | YES | | NULL | |
| howmuch | decimal(5,2) | YES | | NULL | |
+---------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+

I am trying to position the 'color' column after the 'model' column with the following command:

mysql> alter table car_table modify column color after model;

And I'm getting the following error:

ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'after model' at line 1

I'm just wondering what I'm doing wrong here

Comments

You can try
alter table car_table modify column color varchar(10) after model;