Strange behavior

Executing the following "splitline" sql query make the postmaster suck up 
all available memory and cpu time until killed.

an=> SELECT Autos.Id, Autos.Make, Autos.Model, Autos.Year, Owners.Name, 
Owners.Email FROM Owners, Autos  WHERE ( (autos.
an-> id=7877956427));

As you can see, the query is split after the "WHERE ( (autos." onto 
another line. This was a cut and paste mistake by me. I was surprised 
when it hosed the postmaster though instead of returning an sql error.
Rich.