| From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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| To: | "William D(dot) Tallman" <wtallman(at)olypen(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Real newbie question. |
| Date: | 2001-08-20 15:45:23 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0108200843430.98666-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com |
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, William D. Tallman wrote:
> Just started fiddling with PostgreSQL, and know nothing of databases.
>
> I have the documentation that came with the Mandrake-8.0 installation
> written by Thomas Lockhard, and I've perused Bruce Momjian's book online,
> and I cannot find the answer to this problem:
>
> When I am entering values into a table, and make a mistake, sometimes
> there is an error message, and sometimes the equal sign in the prompt
> becomes a single quote. Error messages I can puzzle out, but I have not
> discovered how to recover from the single quote in the prompt. I wind up
> having to kill the terminal and start all over
>
> Can someone point me to the explanation of this?
>
It probably means you have mismatched single quotes which means it
thinks you're in a string constant. '; should generally get you an
error and back to a normal prompt I think (close the constant and
statement)
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