On 2020-07-08 16:51, Robert Haas wrote:
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 1:46 PM Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
Trying to move this along, where would be a good place to define
OPENSSL_API_COMPAT?  The only place that's shared between frontend and
backend code is c.h.  The attached patch does it that way.

So, if we go this way, does that mean that we're not going to pursue
removing dependencies on the deprecated interfaces? I wonder if we
really ought to be doing that too, with preprocessor conditionals.
Otherwise, aren't we putting ourselves in an uncomfortable situation
when the deprecated stuff eventually goes away upstream?

I don't think there is a rush. The 3.0.0 alphas still support interfaces deprecated in 0.9.8 (released 2005). AFAICT, nothing tagged under this API compatibility scheme has ever been removed. If they started doing so, they would presumably do it step by step at the tail end, which would still give us several steps before it catches up with us.

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