Correction and comment for the paper T.H. Koornwinder, The structure relation for Askey-Wilson polynomials, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 207 (2007), 214-226. (last modified, September 30, 2021) Correction: On the left-hand side of (4.11) replace $(Lf)[z]$ by $(Lp_n)[z]$. Comment: The derivation of formula (2.6) with L given by (2.12) is for the case of classical orthogonal polynomials essentially already contained in formula (4) of the paper D.V. Ho, J.W. Jayne and M.B. Sledd, Recursively generated Sturm-Liouville polynomial systems, Duke Math. J. 33 (1966), 131-140. and for the case of Hahn class orthogonal polynomials in Theorem 1 of the paper W. Koepf and D. Schmersau, On a structure formula for classical q-orthogonal polynomials, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 136 (2001), 99-107.