Ludwig Isaac Lim <ludz_lim@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hello: > I noticed that I'm getting errors when copy and pasting code for stored procedure from Windows directly into psql running in putty. > To reproduce create a procedure that has multiple statements with each statements having multiple lines, similar to the ones below: > CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE test()AS$$ UPDATE table1 SET field1 = ?; > -- more SQL statements$$LANGUAGE SQL; > Copy and paste from Windows editor (or IDE) to a psql running in a Putty. Chances are it will complain of syntax error. The error doesn't appear when I copy and paste it to an empty file in vim, and the run: > psql -f <file name> > Is there a way of prevent this kind of error when pasting directly into psql? A gotcha I frequently run into is that if there are any literal tab characters in the text, pasting it into psql fails because the tabs invoke tab-completion, producing either no text or unwanted text. I don't know if that's an issue on Windows (does your psql build do tab completion?), but if so, the workaround is to disable tab completion by starting psql with the '-n' switch. Another fairly likely possibility is that your paste contains invisible characters that psql does not think are whitespace, like non-break space ( ). However, pasting into a file wouldn't make that problem go away, so the tab idea seems a shade more likely. regards, tom lane
