Re: failure and silence of SQL commands

On 04/28/2011 01:21 PM, John Payne wrote:
> Thank you both very much for your help; that was the problem. Stupid of me
> (the answer came to me in the shower this morning as well). If anyone out
> there in the developer community is listening, may I respectfully suggest that
> PSQL’s behavior --- to return nothing when Enter is hit – is pathological. It
> would be so simple to return a message like ”Waiting for the end of the
> statement…” and it would save novices like me a lot of very unhappy hours.

Terrible idea.  Then you'd be peppered with stupid messages while you're
composing a statement.  It doesn't make sense to alter the system for one user
who refuses to learn it correctly.

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Lew
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