Re: lippq client library and openssl initialization: PQinitOpenSSL() - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Daniel Gustafsson
Subject Re: lippq client library and openssl initialization: PQinitOpenSSL()
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Msg-id B6FABD15-33C3-4C0B-AEEF-BD250F431B22@yesql.se
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In response to Re: lippq client library and openssl initialization: PQinitOpenSSL()  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: lippq client library and openssl initialization: PQinitOpenSSL()
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> On 12 Sep 2022, at 13:21, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On 11.09.22 23:43, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>> On 11 Sep 2022, at 23:35, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

>>> Should we document these functions as obsolete when using
>>> OpenSSL >= 1.1.0 ?
>> Given that 1.1.0+ is very common, it's probably not a bad idea to document them
>> as obsolete but harmless. Unless you beat me to it I can propose a patch.
>
> AFAICT, RHEL 7 ships with an older version. I think that's still pretty widespread.

Fair enough.  That doesn't however IMO prevent us from adding a note that 1.1.0
and onwards are different.  The attached keeps the strong wording of the main
para, but adds a note after the related functions.

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Daniel Gustafsson        https://vmware.com/


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