Postgres SSL SYSCALL error: EOF detected with python and psycopg

Question

Using psycopg2 package with python 2.7 I keep getting the titled error: psycopg2.DatabaseError: SSL SYSCALL error: EOF detected

It only occurs when I add a WHE

Answer 1

You may need to express % as %% because % is the placeholder marker. http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/usage.html#passing-parameters-to-sql-queries