Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Don't try to compile SSL CRL support

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Don't try to compile SSL CRL support
Date: 2006-05-05 18:51:05
Message-ID: 200605051851.k45Ip5X01239@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > The attached patch checks for the file, and either user it or generates
> > a log message that it was skipped.
>
> I still can't get excited about this. Who will it help? The DBA who is
> silly enough to think his ancient SSL library supports CRL is probably
> also silly enough not to read the postmaster log carefully. It would
> make a whole lot more sense just to document that OpenSSL < whatever
> doesn't support CRL.

Why hard-code something if we can dynamically report it, and NetBSD 2.0
isn't that old.

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