Re: pgsql: Remove support for SSL compression

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Remove support for SSL compression
Date: 2021-03-09 22:45:56
Message-ID: 2048261.1615329956@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 10:58:21AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> In short, I think I'm a vote for reverting to the v13 behavior.

> The libpq part is a good point, as it could be annoying for people to
> get a changing behavior once the libpq version changes for anything
> using the older major version binaries once the newer libpq is out. I
> am still in favor of keeping the simplifications in the backend though
> as it simplifies some catalogs and PgBackendSSLStatus, and we know
> that SSL compression does not really matter these days.

I have no objection to the backend-side changes, since we can be sure
those won't affect people until they do a major-version upgrade to v14.
But the situation is squishier on the client side, and I don't really
see that pulling out libpq's support is buying us much.

regards, tom lane

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