php won't connect to postgresql

["will trillich" <will@serensoft.com>]

on debian i'm trying to get php to connect to postgres, with no luck.
no error messages, no log entries (that i can find), no clues. argh!

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name
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rc  libapache2-mod-php4
ii  libapache2-mod-php5
un  php3
un  php4-cgi
un  php4-cgi-curl
un  php4-cgi-domxml
un  php4-cgi-gd
un  php4-cgi-imap
un  php4-cgi-ldap
un  php4-cgi-mhash
un  php4-cgi-mysql
un  php4-cgi-pgsql
un  php4-cgi-snmp
un  php4-cgi-xml
ii  php4-cli
ii  php4-common
un  php4-pear
ii  php4-pgsql
un  php4-sablot
ii  php5
un  php5-cgi
ii  php5-common
ii  php5-gd
un  php5-mysql
un  php5-pear
ii  php5-pgsql
un  phpapi-20020918
un  phpapi-20041225

ii  apache2
ii  apache2-common
un  apache2-doc
un  apache2-modules
un  apache2-mpm-perchild
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork
un  apache2-mpm-threadpool
pn  apache2-mpm-worker
ii  apache2-utils
rc  libapache2-mod-php4
ii  libapache2-mod-php5

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apache2's "mods-enabled" dir includes php5.load and php5.conf.

this has got to be something simple i'm missing. any help would be appreciated!

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will trillich
"Their iz ate errers in these sentance."