Re: Real newbie question.

When the prompt changes from an equals sign to a single dash, it means
you have not finished an SQL statement, pgsql is waiting for a semicolon.
A single quote can mean that you didn't close your single quotation, for
example:

UPDATE foo SET column = 'Thursday

If you press return here, psql will be waiting for you to close the
quotation.

Hope this helps.

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?
>
> Thanks, and I hope this question isn't too rudimentary for this NG.
>
> Bill Tallman
>
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