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

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2009, at 12:12 AM, Andrew Chernow <ac@esilo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Robert Haas wrote:
>>> I am not in love with the idea of using PQinitSSL(SOME_MAGIC_VALUE)
>>
>> The issue I see is the inability to toggle crypto initialization.   I 
>> think crypto init and ssl init are 2 different things. Thus, I 
>> proposed the below:
>>
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-02/msg00488.php
> 
> If that can be made transparent to existing apps, I'm all for it.
> 

Defaulting the crypto initialization to TRUE should make this 
transparent.  The downside is that this breaks backwards compatibility, 
since an unknown symbol is being referenced.  Although, that only occurs 
when PQinitCrypto is actually used.

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