Re: lippq client library and openssl initialization: PQinitOpenSSL()

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: 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: 2022-09-11 20:57:50
Message-ID: 9A09E47E-68EB-45DF-A934-FB76F2086D20@yesql.se
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> On 11 Sep 2022, at 17:08, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Sebastien Flaesch <sebastien(dot)flaesch(at)4js(dot)com> writes:
>> The PostgreSQL doc says that if the application code is initializing OpenSSL, it should tell PostgreSQL libpq client library that OpenSSL initialization is already done:
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/libpq-ssl.html#LIBPQ-SSL-INITIALIZE
>> I was wondering if this is still true with OpenSSL 1.1.0+
>
> Don't believe so. The HAVE_CRYPTO_LOCK stuff is all obsolete and
> not compiled if you built against 1.1.0. The only thing left that
> will happen if you don't call PQinitOpenSSL is an extra call to
> OPENSSL_init_ssl, which should be harmless as far as I can see
> from the OpenSSL docs.

To the best of my knowledge, thats entirely correct.

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Daniel Gustafsson https://vmware.com/

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