After some hardships, the problem has been solved. I shall have to ask my typically nocturnal admin what he did and post the soluition here for all to share and enjoy!

Thanks for the input Garvin,

I haven't tried installing other pgsql apps (I don't exactly have any other ones to install...) but I too have searched google for the error and went over the possible issues with my admin who continues to work diligently on solving this problem, so we'll see what comes ...

Greetings all,

I'm trying a new installation of serendipity 1.0.1 on Solaris 9, apache 1.3.27, PHP 4.3.3, PostgreSQL 7.3.4. Each time I do the installation, the process completes with no apparent errors, but none of the database tables get created. The error my admin says he's getting from pgsql is ...