This turned out to be a problem that I discovered before with psql's
parser not correctly handling single quotation marks within C style
comments. I have my file under source control with the revision
information nested inside some C style comments, but one of the revision
change messages had a single quote in it.
BTW single quotes behind "--" work fine.
R.
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Richard Harvey Chapman wrote:
> I have a text file of SQL commands which contains tabs. I used to be able
> to import it using psql using "\i file.sql". Now, I've upgraded to 7.0.2
> and it treats the file as if I'm entering it all in manually. It treats
> the tabs as completion commands.
>
> CREATE TABLE alpha (
> <TAB>num<TAB>SERIAL PRIMARY KEY
> );
>
> will return a syntax error at PRIMARY because it sees the following:
>
> CREATE TABLE alpha (
> numSERIAL PRIMARY KEY
> );
>
> Is there something new that I have to do?
>
> (besides converting the tabs -- if all else fails, I'll do that)
>
> R.
>
>
