Forum .LRN Q&A: creating departments problem

On a new installation of dotlrn/postgres. /dotlrn/admin/department-new

Selection did not return a value, and no default was provided
           while executing
       "db_string select_node_id {}"
           (procedure "get_type_node_id" line 2)
           invoked from within
       "get_type_node_id $parent_type"
           (procedure "dotlrn_community::new_type" line 4)
           invoked from within
       "dotlrn_community::new_type  -community_type_key
"$department_key"  -parent_type "dotlrn_class_instance"  -pretty_name
$pretty_name  -description $desc..."
           ("uplevel" body line 2)
           invoked from within

All the fields were filled