diff --git a/core/lib.rs b/core/lib.rs
index c72ee9a3d..f093762fb 100644
--- a/core/lib.rs
+++ b/core/lib.rs
@@ -596,7 +596,10 @@ impl Iterator for QueryRunner<'_> {
         match self.parser.next() {
             Ok(Some(cmd)) => Some(self.conn.run_cmd(cmd)),
             Ok(None) => None,
-            Err(err) => Some(Err(LimboError::from(err))),
+            Err(err) => {
+                self.parser.finalize();
+                Some(Result::Err(LimboError::from(err)))
+            }
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/vendored/sqlite3-parser/src/lexer/sql/mod.rs b/vendored/sqlite3-parser/src/lexer/sql/mod.rs
index fa98282cc..185aa2183 100644
--- a/vendored/sqlite3-parser/src/lexer/sql/mod.rs
+++ b/vendored/sqlite3-parser/src/lexer/sql/mod.rs
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ pub use error::Error;
 pub struct Parser<'input> {
     input: &'input [u8],
     scanner: Scanner<Tokenizer>,
+    /// lemon parser
     parser: yyParser<'input>,
 }
 
@@ -62,6 +63,11 @@ impl<'input> Parser<'input> {
     pub fn offset(&self) -> usize {
         self.scanner.offset()
     }
+
+    /// Public API for sqlite3ParserFinalize()
+    pub fn finalize(&mut self) {
+        self.parser.sqlite3ParserFinalize();
+    }
 }
 
 /*