On Tue, Aug 6, 2024 at 8:23 AM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote: > While browsing through all our global variables for the multithreading > effort, I noticed that our MD5 implementation in src/common/md5.c uses a > static buffer on big-endian systems, which makes it not thread-safe. > That's a bug because that function is also used in libpq. > > This was introduced in commit b67b57a966, which replaced the old MD5 > fallback implementation with the one from pgcrypto. The thread-safety > didn't matter for pgcrypto, but for libpq it does. > > This only affects big-endian systems that are compiled without OpenSSL.
LGTM. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com