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

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: PQinitSSL broken in some use casesf
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Msg-id 603c8f070902100739s31b31bf1r252c0eff9226534d@mail.gmail.com
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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  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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>> maybe invent a special value to PQinitSSL for ssl only init?
>
> We could do that, I guess. However, if an application passes this in to
> an old version of libpq, there is no way to know that it didn't know
> about it.

Well, you could create PQinitSSLExtended, but, as you say, the use
case is pretty narrow...

It would help if there were a PQgetLibraryVersion() function.

...Robert


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