Re: psql misbehaves because of a simple typo

"Serguei Mokhov" <sa_mokho@alcor.concordia.ca> writes:
> Is it me (who hasn't read some FAQ or a doc/man page) or
> it's a bug in the psql interactive terminal?

Both.  There's a bug there, but it's not the one you think.
psql seems to forget that it's got unmatched parentheses in the
buffer after executing a \? command.  Watch the prompt:

regression=# (select
regression(# \?... yadda yadda ...
regression-# 2;
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near ";"
regression=# (select
regression(# \?... yadda yadda ...
regression-# 2);?column?
----------       2
(1 row)

In the first example, it should not have thought that it had
a complete command after "2;".
        regards, tom lane