Re: [PORTS] Port Bug Report: parse error not detected on unterminated quote

At 16:31 +0300 on 30/06/1999, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> And seems to be:
>
> postgres=> select * from mytable' where id = 1234;
> postgres'> '
> postgres-> ;
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "'"
> postgres=>
>
> This is on a RH5.2 system with with the cvs distribution of Postgres
> (rather than v6.5 exactly). But the parsing behavior should be the
> same. I'm not sure what could be different in our installations...

In psql, it will probably never be a problem, because it demands that you
close the quotation mark (that "postgres'>" prompt). It doesn't send
anything to the backend until you have closed the quotation and type \g or
';'.

But what happens if the above query is sent through one of the other
interfaces, like pqlib?

Herouth

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