Re: PQinitSSL broken in some use casesf

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>> Merlin Moncure wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>>> > Robert Haas wrote:
>>> >> > Would someone remind me why turning off ssl initialization in libpq does
>>> >> > not work for this case?
>>> >>
>>> >> That initializes both libcrypto and libssl. The problem arises when
>>> >> libcrypto has been initialized but libssl has not.
>>> >
>>> > So initialize ssl in your application? What is the problem?
>>>
>>> then libpq doesn't work.
>
> PQinitSSL is required if you want to make any ssl calls (it does some
> libpq setup beyond the ssl library initialization).

that was worded badly. Rather, PQinitSSL is required if you need to
use ssl features withing libpq.

merlin