Re: Failing SSL connection due to weird interaction with openssl

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-12-08T16:07:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2012-11-26 21:45:32 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > I gather that this is supposed to be back-patched to all supported
> > branches.
>
> FWIW, I don't like that patch any better than Robert does.  It seems
> as likely to do harm as good.  If there are places where libpq itself
> is leaving entries on the error stack, we should fix them -- retail.
> But it's not our business to clobber global state because there might
> be bugs in some other part of an application.

As there hasn't been any new input since this comment I am marking the
patch as "Rejected" in the CF application.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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