Re: Parser failed to return an error

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 11:14 AM, David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Thursday, February 2, 2017, rob stone <floriparob(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Linux roblaptop 4.9.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.2-2 (2017-01-12) x86_64
>> GNU/Linux
>>
>>
>> I was running a query like:-
>>
>> SELECT TO_CHAR(my_date,'dd-mm-yyyy) FROM my_table;
>>
>> and I forgot to type the second single quotation mark at the end of the
>> mask string.
>>
>> Under psql it just hung and I had to Ctrl-C to go back to a prompt and
>> under JDBC it hung as well and EQ just said "error", as in a failure of
>> some sort.
>>
>> I would have expected either a 42601 error or maybe a 03000 error to
>> have been returned.
>>
>>
> At least in psql that isn't a query. It's a multi-line query fragment.
> The UI is waiting for you to enter more of the query and end the string
> literal that you've begun.
>

Also, that is indicated by the change in prompt from => to '> (assuming you
are using the default prompts).

That would seem to be bug in JDBC, though. Rob, can you provide a full
example code?
What is "EQ"?

Cheers,

Jeff