Re: OpenSSL 3.0.0 vs old branches

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: OpenSSL 3.0.0 vs old branches
Date: 2023-02-08 04:37:54
Message-ID: 3419941.1675831074@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 01:28:26PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think Peter's misremembering the history, and OpenSSL 3 *is*
>> supported in these branches. There could be an argument for
>> not back-patching f0d2c65f17 on the grounds that pre-1.1.1 is
>> also supported there. On the whole though, it seems more useful
>> today for that test to pass with 3.x than for it to pass with 0.9.8.
>> And I can't see investing effort to make it do both (but if Peter
>> wants to, I won't stand in the way).

> Cutting support for 0.9.8 in oldest branches would be a very risky
> move, but as you say, if that only involves a failure in the SSL
> tests while still allowing anything we have to work, fine by me to
> live with that.

Question: is anybody around here still testing with 0.9.8 (or 1.0.x)
at all? The systems I had that had that version on them are dead.

regards, tom lane

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