Hi David, > On 29. Oct, 2020, at 17:21, David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 9:16 AM Paul Förster <paul.foerster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But I guess that Emacs shows the matching closing bracket at the beginning of the line, which matches that single tuple. But you also need a closing bracket for the set of tuples like this: > > insert ... > ( > (v1, v2, v3), > (v4, v5, v6), > (v7, v8, v9) <= this is the bracket pair that Emacs shows as matching. > ); <= this is the missing bracket. > > > Except that isn't valid INSERT statement syntax. You are missing "values" and there is no enclosing parens: > > INSERT INTO tbl (i) VALUES (1), (2), (3); --this is perfectly valid > > That said seeing the first few rows, in addition to the last few, would help. sorry, I didn't check. My point was that there is a mismatch between a closing parent and an initial opening parent somewhere even if Emacs shows the last parent as matching the last opening parent. So, you are right of course. postgres=# create table t1(v1 int, v2 int, v3 int); CREATE TABLE postgres=# insert into t1(v1, v2, v3) values (1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6), (7, 8, 9); INSERT 0 3 Cheers, Paul