postgresql 7 (woody) broken - downgraded to frozen

[kmself@ix.netcom.com]

The upgrade to postgresql 7 is broken rather horribly in several places
-- postinstall does not work, this has been noted as a bug on the
tracking system, though the posted fix (changed flags to dbinst) only
addresses part of the problem.  The bug is now outstanding for over two
weeks.

I've resolved the issue on my own system by reverting to the following
frozen packages:

    ecpg_6.5.3-18.deb
    libpgperl_6.5.3-18.deb
    libpgsql2_6.5.3-18.deb
    libpgsql_6.3.2-16.1.deb
    libpgtcl_6.5.3-18.deb
    postgresql-client_6.5.3-18.deb
    postgresql-contrib_6.5.3-18.deb
    postgresql-dev_6.5.3-18.deb
    postgresql-doc_6.5.3-18.deb
    postgresql-pl_6.5.3-18.deb
    postgresql-test_6.5.3-18.deb
    postgresql_6.5.3-18.deb

...downloaded and installed with

   dpkg -i --force-downgrade *.deb

...works

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