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Re: LDAP: bugfix and deprecated OpenLDAP API

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

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From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>
Cc: "Peter Eisentraut *EXTERN*" <peter_e@gmx.net>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-07-05T12:47:56Z
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On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Btw., I just checked the source code of Apache, PHP, and PAM, and they
>> are all unconditionally building with LDAP_DEPRECATED.  So maybe there
>> is no hurry about this.
>
> I don't think that the old API functions will go away until there
> is a new standard for the LDAP C API, but I have no inside knowledge
> of OpenLDAP.

Based on this, I thikn it's reasonable to not worry about
LDAP_DEPRECATED at this point, and only take that plunge when we
actually *need* some of that functionality.

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