| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "T(dot)J(dot)" <tjtoocool(at)phreaker(dot)net>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] More SSL questions.. |
| Date: | 2005-01-05 20:44:25 |
| Message-ID: | 200501052044.j05KiPN11419@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > win32 hackers, anyone know why it's like this?
>
> Looking through the code, it seems that it's because someone thought
> that breaking SSL would be easier than replacing the pqGetpwuid() calls
> that are used to find out the user's home directory.
>
I think what happened is that SSL was known to be broken on Win32 and
someone submitted a patch and I thought it now worked, but obviously it
doesn't. Perhaps the fix was just so it compiled with SSL.
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