parse error at or near "(" -- Huh???

Hi,

I'm getting a frustrating error

ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "(" at character 201

in a CREATE TABLE statement from an SQL script that I'm running from
within a Perl script. When I run the same script from the command
line, either as a regular user or as root, it works fine.

The SQL is
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CREATE SEQUENCE "users_id"
START 1 INCREMENT 1 MAXVALUE 2147483647 MINVALUE 1 CACHE 1;

CREATE TABLE "users" (
"u_id" integer DEFAULT nextval('users_id'::text) NOT NULL,
"u_name" text NOT NULL,
"u_password" text NOT NULL,
"u_console_flag" integer DEFAULT 0,
Constraint "users_pkey" Primary Key ("u_id")
);
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The 'console_flag' field was recently added and is close-ish to the
point that I think the parser is failing. And speaking of that, how I
am to interpret 'character 201' -- should I collapse the SQL into it's
minimal state (least number spaces) and go from that?

Thanks.

Alex

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