Re: OpenSSL 3.0.0 vs old branches

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-02-08T04:37:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 01:28:26PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think Peter's misremembering the history, and OpenSSL 3 *is*
>> supported in these branches.  There could be an argument for
>> not back-patching f0d2c65f17 on the grounds that pre-1.1.1 is
>> also supported there.  On the whole though, it seems more useful
>> today for that test to pass with 3.x than for it to pass with 0.9.8.
>> And I can't see investing effort to make it do both (but if Peter
>> wants to, I won't stand in the way).

> Cutting support for 0.9.8 in oldest branches would be a very risky
> move, but as you say, if that only involves a failure in the SSL
> tests while still allowing anything we have to work, fine by me to
> live with that.

Question: is anybody around here still testing with 0.9.8 (or 1.0.x)
at all?  The systems I had that had that version on them are dead.

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. Backpatch OpenSSL 3.0.0 compatibility in tests

  2. OpenSSL 3.0.0 compatibility in tests

  3. Remove support for OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 1.0.0