Re: db commands elicit no response

On Wednesday, February 24, 2016, Fred Parkinson <FredP(at)abag(dot)ca(dot)gov> wrote:

> I must be doing something stupid but I can't figure it out.
>
> **I logged into our database server (8.4.17) and did the following:
> psql template1 **to get in
> CREATE DATABASE planning_services **database created
> **logged out of template1
> psql planning_services **now in planing_services database with prompt
> planning_services(#
>

This prompt indicates that you are in line-continuation mode. Don't know
how you got there but everything you are typing is being added to a command
buffer.

> create table policies (
> "id" serial primary key,
> "description" varchar(100)
> ;
>

So, you have an open parentheses here but never closed it...which would
explain the above.

David J.