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From Jelte Fennema-Nio
Subject Re: Don't use the deprecated and insecure PQcancel in our frontend tools anymore
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Msg-id DFE79YWE1WMQ.3PW5S3JWD0LU1@jeltef.nl
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In response to Don't use the deprecated and insecure PQcancel in our frontend tools anymore  ("Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres@jeltef.nl>)
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On Sun Dec 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM CET, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> A bunch of frontend tools, including psql, still used PQcancel to send
> cancel requests to the server. That function is insecure, because it
> does not use encryption to send the cancel request. This starts using
> the new cancellation APIs (introduced in 61461a300) for all these
> frontend tools.

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