Seems that during an interactive transaction at the psql prompt any syntax error will cause the following state to be entered NOTICE: current transaction is aborted, queries ignored until end of transaction block *ABORT STATE* This is a bit annoying since it reared up near the end of a long and complex data manipulation session. I don't want to be at all pushy (just about anything else is probably higher priority) and stress that Its not a big problem but I was wondering why this occurs, and if it is on the todo list to fix. here is a sample gbtest=> begin; BEGIN gbtest=> select * fro pg_trigger; ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "fro" gbtest=> select * from pg_trigger; NOTICE: current transaction is aborted, queries ignored until end of transaction block *ABORT STATE* gbtest=> rollback; Mike. =================== Mike Finn Tactical Executive Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly