Re: Cutting support for OpenSSL 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 in 17~?

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, mikael.kjellstrom@gmail.com, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2024-05-08T00:45:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 12:36:24PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> Fair enough.  I've taken a stab at documenting that the functions are
> deprecated, while at the same time documenting when and how they can be used
> (and be useful).  The attached also removes one additional comment in the
> testcode which is now obsolete (since removing 1.0.1 support really), and fixes
> the spurious whitespace you detected upthread.

+       This function is deprecated and only present for backwards compatibility,
+       it does nothing.
[...]
+       <xref linkend="libpq-PQinitSSL"/> and <xref linkend="libpq-PQinitOpenSSL"/>
+       are maintained for backwards compatibility, but are no longer required
+       since <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 18.

LGTM, thanks for doing this!
--
Michael

Commits

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  1. Remove obsolete unconstify()

  2. Only perform pg_strong_random init when required

  3. Remove support for OpenSSL older than 1.1.0

  4. Support SSL_R_VERSION_TOO_LOW when using LibreSSL

  5. Support disallowing SSL renegotiation when using LibreSSL

  6. Doc: Use past tense for things which happened in the past

  7. Remove support for OpenSSL 1.0.1

  8. Remove support for OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 1.0.0