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03000WARNINGTier 3 — Handle with care✅ HIGH confidence

sql statement not yet complete

Category: SQL Statement Not Yet CompleteVersions: All Postgres versions

What this means

SQLSTATE 03000 is raised when Postgres receives a command that is syntactically incomplete or that cannot yet be executed because a prerequisite step has not been performed. The server is informing the client to supply more input.

Why it happens

  1. 1Sending an incomplete SQL statement to the server
  2. 2Using multi-step protocols where the next command cannot proceed without completing a prior step

How to reproduce

Interactive session sending partial SQL.

trigger — this will ERROR
SELECT * FROM -- (incomplete, no table or condition)
WARNING: sql statement not yet complete

Fix 1: Complete the SQL statement before sending

When building SQL strings programmatically.

fix

Why this works

Ensure the full statement is constructed and terminated with a semicolon before submission.

Sources

📚 Official docs: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/errcodes-appendix.html

🔧 Source ref: Class 03 — SQL Statement Not Yet Complete

Confidence assessment

✅ HIGH confidence

Standard SQLSTATE. Rarely seen outside interactive or protocol-level tooling.

See also

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