diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index dc088fd..64c448e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 1.3
+- Fix bug in relational-cli that made it crash when an exception was raised
 
 1.2
 - Better tokenizer, gives more indicative errors
diff --git a/relational_readline/linegui.py b/relational_readline/linegui.py
index 573b851..897224f 100644
--- a/relational_readline/linegui.py
+++ b/relational_readline/linegui.py
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ def exec_query(command):
 
         completer.add_completion(relname)
     except Exception, e:
-        print colorize(e, ERROR_COLOR)
+        print colorize(str(e), ERROR_COLOR)
 
 
 def main(files=[]):