Re: OpenSSL support in our back branches

On 2017-04-15 18:04:00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I see that buildfarm member anchovy has been failing in pre-9.5
> branches for the last several weeks, with symptoms suggesting that
> it's been updated to openssl 1.1.0 or later.  The failures are
> unsurprising given that commit 593d4e47d wasn't back-patched further
> than 9.5, but I wonder whether it isn't time to do that now.

+1.

I think Andreas already did some of the required work in
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/0c817abb-3f7d-20fb-583a-58f7593a0bea%40proxel.se


> Alternatively, we could ask anchovy's owner to remove --with-openssl
> from its configuration for pre-9.5 branches, but there are going to
> be more and more buildfarm critters with this issue.

Not just critters, there'll likely also be distributions running into
the issues, too :(

- Andres