On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think your problem is the line break, not the parentheses. psql knows
> how to count parens, but it has no concept of letting backslash commands
> continue across lines.
Tom,
Interesting. I've adopted separating select statements by their expressions
as it makes it easier for me to get it right, or fix it. However, I can put
it all on a single line once I know the syntax is correct and I add the
\copy() function.
Thanks,
Rich