03000WARNINGTier 3 — Handle with care✅ HIGH confidencesql 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
- 1Sending an incomplete SQL statement to the server
- 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
🔗 Related errors
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