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Re: OpenSSL 1.1 breaks configure and more

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>, Victor Wagner <vitus@wagner.pp.ru>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2016-08-26T16:36:30Z
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On 8/26/16 5:31 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> I think now would be a good time to drop support for OpenSSL versions 
> older than 0.9.8. OpenSSL don't even support 0.9.8 anymore, although 
> there are probably distributions out there that still provide patches 
> for it. But OpenSSL 0.9.7 and older are really not interesting for 
> PostgreSQL 10 anymore, I think.

CentOS 5 currently ships 0.9.8e.  That's usually the oldest OS we want
to support eagerly.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

Commits

  1. Back-patch 9.4-era SSL renegotiation code into 9.3 and 9.2.