Re: BUG #17625: In PG15 PQsslAttribute returns different values than PG14 when SSL is not in use for the connection

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 4:16 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> I wrote:
> > AFAICS that behavioral change is deliberate: for the single case
> > of inquiring about "library", PQsslAttribute now tells you which
> > SSL implementation libpq *can* use, not which one it's actually
> > using on a given connection. I'm not sure that this is a great
> > definition, since it's so unlike the behavior for other attributes.
>
> Actually, wait a minute: both the documentation and the commit
> message claim the new behavior is something different than what it
> actually is. The intention seems to have been to change the
> behavior only for the conn == NULL case. So maybe we need to
> fix it as attached. This'd still be broken for the
> multiple-libraries scenario, but I admit that that's pretty
> hypothetical.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
Tom,

I was in the process of drafting a reply, but this new patch seems to
resolve my issues with the documentation and functionality. I really
appreciate you looking into this and I am good with this patch.

Thanks,
Heath