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When working on writing some directions for someone at work I ran into a PostgreSQL command line query error. I have much more experience using MySQL so my initial Postgres commands always mimic what I would do in MySQL. Anyhow when attempting to run a SELECT statement matching contents of a specific column I received the error below. After a little research I came up with the answer fairly easily but wanted to note here to help others out and serve as a reference point if I forgot the proper PSQL query in the future. Below I describe the query that caused the error, the error returned by Postgres, and the proper query to use when attempting to match a variable in a Postgres SELECT statement.