This file is indexed.

preinst is in postgresql-8.4 8.4.11-1.

This file is a maintainer script. It is executed when installing (*inst) or removing (*rm) the package.

The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.

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#!/bin/sh
set -e

rm_conffile() {
    PKGNAME="postgresql-8.4"
    CONFFILE="$1"

    if [ -e "$CONFFILE" ]; then
	md5sum="`md5sum \"$CONFFILE\" | sed -e \"s/ .*//\"`"
	old_md5sum="`dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}' $PKGNAME | sed -n -e \"\\\\' $CONFFILE'{s/ obsolete$//;s/.* //p}\"`"
	if [ "$md5sum" != "$old_md5sum" ]; then
	    echo "Obsolete conffile $CONFFILE has been modified by you."
	    echo "Saving as $CONFFILE.dpkg-bak ..."
	    mv -f "$CONFFILE" "$CONFFILE".dpkg-bak
	else
	    echo "Removing obsolete conffile $CONFFILE ..."
	    rm -f "$CONFFILE"
	fi
    fi
}

# earlier releases used per-version init scripts, now replaced with common one 
if [ "$1" = "upgrade" ] || [ "$1" = "install" ] && \
	dpkg --compare-versions "$2" le-nl "8.4.4-2"; then
    rm_conffile /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4
fi



exit 0