Re: Fwd: [PATCHES] Preliminary GSSAPI Patches

Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> Long Answer:
> I've been dealing with OpenSSL binary incompatibility issues for the last
> few Solaris builds and it's made me very unhappy with the
> upgrade/versioning/linking of OpenSSL, and explained a lot of issues I've
> had around using OpenSSL with PostgreSQL and Apache previously. That is,
> 0.9.8 isn't always backwards compatible to 0.9.7 or 0.9.6, making
> applications built against one version of OpenSSL not necessarily portable
> or easily upgraded, and causing a lot of installation-related pain.

> (yes, I know this describes PostgreSQL as well. People complain about it
> all the time to us, and they're right)

Indeed, but I dunno why you think things will be all magically better
in GSSAPI-land. What I foresee as more likely is that we'll just be
opening up another front in the versioning war.

regards, tom lane