Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net> writes:
> wow=# update \d dmoz
> Table "dmoz"
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> --------+---------+-----------
> id | integer |
> name | text |
> path | ltree |
> Indexes: dmoz_id_idx unique btree (id),
> dmoz_path_idx gist ("path")
> wow-#
> wow-# ;
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near ""
> Is it normal behaviour? Its seems to me that isn't..
This is the same as\d dmozupdate ;
The behavior seems reasonable to me. If psql's backslash commands
flushed the query input buffer, we couldn't have any commands for
query-buffer editing.
One thing that does seem a little odd is:
regression=# update;
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near ";"
regression=# update
regression-# ;
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near ""
Investigation shows that psql includes the ';' in what it sends to
the backend in the first case, but not in the second. I'm not sure that
that rises to the level of a bug, but it seems odd.
It'd probably also be nice if the error message said
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near end of input
rather than quoting a useless empty token. I will see if I can make
that happen.
regards, tom lane
