"Aleksey M Boltenkov" <holyb...@rambler.ru> writes: > Is this a bug?
> pg01:5432 postgres@db=# select 'any expression'any expression\d+; No. The "\d+;" is taken as a backslash command, and is executed. The rest of what you typed is still waiting in the query buffer. It's bit weird perhaps, since \d seems like a "do-something" command rather than a query buffer editing command. But psql uses the same rules for both cases. regards, tom lane