cannot get CREATE TABLE AS to work

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, and I'm hoping someone can show me the
way of things. Running 7.1beta5 on an Ultra 5, Solaris 2.6 w/256Mb mem. If
I remove the AS, the table creates correctly and I can do the INSERT INTO
with the SELECT clause

psql -d tassiv -c "\
create table observationsII ( \
ra float8 not null, \
decl float8 not null, \
mag float8 not null, \
smag float8 not null, \
obs_id serial, \
file_id int4 references files on delete cascade, \
star_id int4 references comp_loc on delete set null default null ) \
AS select o.ra, o.decl, o.mag, o.smag, o.file_id from
observations o"

ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "AS"

And the next question, should this really be taking 3 hours to insert 315446
records? I noticed the disk is basically idle during the few times when I
watched. Would this be because of the index created on obs_id?

time psql -d tassiv -c "insert into observationsII( ra, decl, mag, smag,
file_id ) select ra, decl, mag, smag, file_id from observations"
INSERT 0 315446
0.01u 0.01s 3:13:22.39 0.0%

Robert Creager
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