| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Sebastien Flaesch <sebastien(dot)flaesch(at)4js(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: lippq client library and openssl initialization: PQinitOpenSSL() |
| Date: | 2022-09-12 13:47:51 |
| Message-ID: | 1606993.1662990471@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
> On 12 Sep 2022, at 13:21, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> 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.
Personally I'd put this up front, more like
have been initialized by your application, so that
<application>libpq</application> will not also initialize those libraries.
+ However, this is unnecessary when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 or later,
+ as duplicate initializations are no longer problematic.
</para>
If you do use wording that specifically mentions PQinitOpenSSL,
it should also mention PQinitSSL, just for clarity.
regards, tom lane
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