I apologize for the delay,I've been off-line for a bit.  I was aware of the failure in some edge cases and I think I have a solution.  I've attached an elisp file that you should be able to require once sql.el has been loaded that overrides the function as it appears in sql.el. Please give it a try and see if it corrects the behavior you see. Thanks Michael On Monday, September 22, 2014 4:10 AM, Matthew Smiglarski wrote: This bug does not happen on the 24.3 release but does happen on 24.3.93. The problem is with sql-interactive-remove-continuation-prompt, one of the functions configured to be called by comint-output-filter. It is caused by code introduced by this git revision. commit 34499a8eb3c10db8c79a7aa87e1bbce0ae499fb6 Author: Michael Mauger Date:  Tue Jul 23 20:25:53 2013 -0400 One workaround is to type the password in anyway. Another workaround is to remove some of the code with the following patch: diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/sql.el b/lisp/progmodes/sql.el index 13d4178..2fd755d 100644 --- a/lisp/progmodes/sql.el +++ b/lisp/progmodes/sql.el @@ -3337,18 +3337,7 @@ to avoid deleting non-prompt output."         (unless prompt-found           (setq sql-output-newline-count nil                 oline (concat oline sql-preoutput-hold) -                sql-preoutput-hold "")) - -        ;; Break up output by physical lines if we haven't hit the final prompt -        (unless (and (not (string= oline "")) -                    (string-match (sql-ends-with-prompt-re) oline) -                    (>= (match-end 0) (length oline))) -          (setq last-nl 0) -          (while (string-match "\n" oline last-nl) -            (setq last-nl (match-end 0))) -          (setq sql-preoutput-hold (concat (substring oline last-nl) -                                          sql-preoutput-hold) -                oline (substring oline 0 last-nl)))))) +                sql-preoutput-hold "")))))     oline) This sql-interactive-remove-continuation-prompt function removes continuation prompt (the prompt sent when halfway through a command) and this improves the usability of multi-line SQL statements on the interpreter. There is another small bug with that code where the continuation line sneaks through, throwing the alignment out. By this, I mean the "template1->" prompt in the following examples: template1=> select 42; ?column? ----------       42 (1 row) template1=> select 42; template1->  ?column? ----------       42 (1 row) template1=> select 42, 43; template1->  ?column? | ?column? ----------+----------       42 |      43 (1 row) That happens because of the following lines:         ;; Add this text to what's left from the last pass         (setq oline (concat sql-preoutput-hold oline)               sql-preoutput-hold "") I hope this helps.