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Removing broken support for OpenSSL without ECDH

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> — 2026-05-22T18:01:55Z

Commit 316472146 introduced support for ECDH key exchange in 2013, honoring the
OPENSSL_NO_ECDH macro for checking it OpenSSL supports ECDH.  A few years later
in 2015 OpenSSL removed the macro OPENSSL_NO_ECDH by merging OPENSSL_NO_ECDH
and OPENSSL_NO_ECDSA into a single OPENSSL_NO_EC macro in commit 10bf4fc2c [0].
PostgreSQL never got the memo though, so our check has been defunct ever since.

That being said, using OpenSSL without ECDH support sounds like an anti-feature
and not something we want to re-introduce support for, so I propose just
removing our useless guards as per the attached.  There is clearly no need for
backpatching, but I propose applying to master as it cleans up the code.

Also, scanning the archives I was unable to find anyone complaining about this
not working (which came to no surprise).

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Daniel Gustafsson

[0] https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/10bf4fc2c