Re: PQinitSSL broken in some use casesf - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: PQinitSSL broken in some use casesf
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Msg-id 200903301740.n2UHeEM29830@momjian.us
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In response to Re: PQinitSSL broken in some use casesf  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: PQinitSSL broken in some use casesf  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On 30 mar 2009, at 17.24, Andrew Chernow <ac@esilo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> BTW, unless someone objects I'd like to make the name of that  
> >> function
> >> PQinitSecurity.
> >
> > Agreed.  Although, both PQinitSecure and PQinitSecurity are very  
> > general names.  "Security" can mean a lot of things.  Maybe the name  
> > should be more particular, like PQinitOpenSSL.  I think its okay to  
> > reference the openssl project name being how this function is  
> > designed to work with openssl's library split.
> >
> +1
> 
> It's quite likely that well want to support another ssl library in the  
> future. At least likely enough that any api we define should take it  
> into consideration.

Are we sure we don't want to add a more general libpq initialization
control at this time?
PQinitOptions(PG_NO_SSL_INIT | PG_NO_CRYPTO_INIT);

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