On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 03:24:38PM +0200, A B wrote: > Whenever I use copy-paste to run code in a terminal window that is > running psql, and the code contains a row like > > IF FOUND THEN > > then I get the words [...] > That must be some kind of display of possible stuff to write after > "THEN" but it is very annoying. How to turn it of? I'd guess the next line of code starts with a tab character and hence psql is just tab completing the (empty) line. If you don't want this to happen, you can disable table completion. From the man page: If for some reason you do not like the tab completion, you can turn it off by putting this in a file named .inputrc in your home directory: $if psql set disable-completion on $endif As an aside, there isn't an "if" statement in SQL. Sam