I used an apostrophe in my policy Description:
<Description>olaf's .org zones</Description>
that caused the following (looping) error when running ods-ksmutil update-all
Error: unable to insert policy org-nsec3; skipping
ERROR: error executing SQL
- You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 's .org zones')' at line 1