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Re: lippq client library and openssl initialization: PQinitOpenSSL()

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

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From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Sebastien Flaesch <sebastien.flaesch@4js.com>, "pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-09-12T11:55:29Z
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> On 12 Sep 2022, at 13:21, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On 11.09.22 23:43, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>> On 11 Sep 2022, at 23:35, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

>>> Should we document these functions as obsolete when using
>>> OpenSSL >= 1.1.0 ?
>> Given that 1.1.0+ is very common, it's probably not a bad idea to document them
>> as obsolete but harmless. Unless you beat me to it I can propose a patch.
> 
> AFAICT, RHEL 7 ships with an older version. I think that's still pretty widespread.

Fair enough.  That doesn't however IMO prevent us from adding a note that 1.1.0
and onwards are different.  The attached keeps the strong wording of the main
para, but adds a note after the related functions.

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Daniel Gustafsson		https://vmware.com/

Commits

  1. doc: PQinitOpenSSL and PQinitSSL are obsolete in OpenSSL 1.1.0+