diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/ParserImpl.java b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/ParserImpl.java
index 4c784e043b..81c5699778 100644
--- a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/ParserImpl.java
+++ b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/ParserImpl.java
@@ -451,10 +451,10 @@ class ParserImpl implements Parser {
     }
 
     private static final Query parseQuery(ParserContext ctx, boolean resultQuery) {
+        parseWhitespaceIf(ctx);
         if (ctx.done())
             return null;
 
-        parseWhitespaceIf(ctx);
         try {
             switch (ctx.character()) {
                 case 'a':