I'm trying to create a new table in postgres but when I do it just hangs after the CREATE TABLE call.

$ sudo usermod -s /bin/bash postgres
$ sudo su - postgres
postgres@host:~$ psql ranking_analytics
psql (8.4.8)
Type "help" for help.

ranking_analytics=# BEGIN;
BEGIN
ranking_analytics=# CREATE TABLE "about_contactmessage" (
ranking_analytics(#     "id" serial NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
ranking_analytics(#     "user_id" integer NOT NULL REFERENCES "auth_user" ("id") DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED,
ranking_analytics(#     "subject" text NOT NULL,
ranking_analytics(#     "message" text NOT NULL,
ranking_analytics(#     "recorded_time" timestamp with time zone NOT NULL
ranking_analytics(# )
ranking_analytics-# ;
NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "about_contactmessage_id_seq" for serial column "about_contactmessage.id"

It will then just sit here indefinately until I CTRL-C it.

There are other tables in the database and this one doesn't already exist:

ranking_analytics=# \d about_contactmessage
Did not find any relation named "about_contactmessage".

I'm able to do insert and delete queries on other tables in the database without a problem:

ranking_analytics=# insert into locations_continent (continent_name) VALUES ('testing');
INSERT 0 1
ranking_analytics=# delete from locations_continent where continent_name = 'testing';
DELETE 1

There is plenty of drive space on the machine:

$ df -H
Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda               21G   2.3G    18G  12% /
devtmpfs               255M   132k   255M   1% /dev
none                   257M   476k   256M   1% /dev/shm
none                   257M    54k   257M   1% /var/run
none                   257M      0   257M   0% /var/lock

Any ideas what could be wrong?

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