Re: how to select

-Jonathan

<quote who="Jaime Casanova">
> On 7/29/05, Jonathan Villa <jvilla(at)innovativesource(dot)net> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, this is odd...
>>
>> I tried ending with a semicolon before, and received this error
>>
>> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "select"
>>
>> I have to do it twice before I get it works...here's an example
>>
>> select project_name from project_group_list;
>> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "select"
>> select project_name from project_group_list;
>> ...
>> ...
>> ...
>>
>> that's odd...
>>
>>
>
> that's because you type a select without a semicolon then you write
> one with the semicolon so the parser think both are only one command
> but refused to execute that bad formed sentence and give you the
> error... then you put another sentence and, of cuorse it executed...
>
> you just show us 2 sentences one before the error and one after...
>
> am i right?
>
> --
> Atentamente,
> Jaime Casanova
> (DBA: DataBase Aniquilator ;)
>

I feel about this small -> .

Of course it's the semicolon... I guess I'm just used to MySQL where I would get this

select user from table (hit enter)
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