Made a typo, using } instead of ) to test a weird table name, and got disconnected. Normal? --DD ddevienne=> create table "t |" ( id int}; ddevienne(> ); server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably means the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Succeeded. ddevienne=> create table "t |" ( id int); ddevienne=> drop table "t |"; ddevienne=> \! psql -V psql (PostgreSQL) 12.1 ddevienne=> select version(); version --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PostgreSQL 12.5 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39), 64-bit (1 row)