Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] More SSL questions.. - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > win32 hackers, anyone know why it's like this?
>
> Looking through the code, it seems that it's because someone thought
> that breaking SSL would be easier than replacing the pqGetpwuid() calls
> that are used to find out the user's home directory.
>

I think what happened is that SSL was known to be broken on Win32 and
someone submitted a patch and I thought it now worked, but obviously it
doesn't.  Perhaps the fix was just so it compiled with SSL.

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