On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Theodore Petrosky wrote:
> This isn't all my problem...
>
> I was going through tutorials, and I typed in the
> example for inheritance. I had a typo that did not
> throw an error and I think it should.
>
> i created the tables from the cities, capitals example
> and then tried to insert.
>
> test-db=# insert into capitals (name, population,
> state) values ('Trenton', '543565, 'New Jersey');
>
> my typo is the extra single quote before the number. I
> received no error message, but of course there was no
> insert. I would have assumed that the trailing ';'
> would have terminated the insert and if there is an
> error, it should have said so.
That ; is inside a single quoted string, it's not an
end of statement character, it's taken as a literal ;.
The prompt should change to something like
test-db'# to let you know that you're inside a literal.
