On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 05:05:03PM -0400, Gregory L Miller-Kramer wrote: > On system One I enter the database ... > psql exdb exdb > select misspelled_excol from extable; > > and an error is displayed... > ERROR: column 'misspelled_excol' does not exist > > On the "Other" system (Postgres 8.0) that error is NOT displayed. > Infact, nothing is displayed it just returns to the prompt.
As I asked in my previous message, what's the output of the following query? SHOW client_min_messages; My first guess is that client_min_messages is set to "fatal" or "panic", which, although not among the documented settings for client_min_messages, are allowed and would have the effect you describe: test=> SET client_min_messages TO panic; SET test=> SELECT misspelled_excol FROM extable; test=> SET client_min_messages TO notice; SET test=> SELECT misspelled_excol FROM extable; ERROR: column "misspelled_excol" does not exist -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend