note 102518 rejected from function.pg-connect by danbrown

[email protected] Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:27:33 -0800
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Note Submitter: dalitec at hotmail dot com 

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I get the Fatal error: Call to undefined function pg_pconnect() as well. I am running postgresql 8.3 on debian lenny and  PHP Version 5.2.6-1+lenny9. I checked the php.ini file and has
 [PostgresSQL]
; Allow or prevent persistent links.
pgsql.allow_persistent = On

Any thoughts?