To reproduce: - activate sql-mode - call M-x sql-set-product - select mysql - write a part of a query, f.ex. select * from - call M-x sql-end-of-statement Error: sql-end-of-statement: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil A missing :terminator sql-product-feature of mysql seems to be causing this issue. In GNU Emacs 25.1.4 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) of 2016-09-24 built on kubuntu Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11804000 System Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS Configured using: 'configure --with-x-toolkit=no' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY LIBXML2 FREETYPE XFT ZLIB X11 Important settings: value of $LC_MONETARY: nl_BE.UTF-8 value of $LC_NUMERIC: nl_BE.UTF-8 value of $LC_TIME: nl_BE.UTF-8 value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: SQL[MySQL]