Re: Recent vendor SSL renegotiation patches break PostgreSQL

Tom Lane wrote:
> Chris Campbell <chris_campbell(at)mac(dot)com> writes:
> > Is there a way to detect when the SSL library has renegotiation disabled?
>
> Probably not. The current set of emergency security patches would
> certainly not have exposed any new API that would help us tell this :-(
>
> If said patches were done properly they'd have also turned an
> application-level renegotiation request into a no-op, instead of
> breaking apps by making it fail --- but apparently they were not done
> properly.

Yea, and also keep in mind any SSL library checks need to be done at
run-time (because I believe openssl is usually linked as a shared
object), which even further limits our options.

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