Re: Removal of support for OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 1.0.0

On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 10:33:23AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Thanks. Another argument in favor of dropping 1.0.0 and 0.9.8 is that
> it is a pain to check an OpenSSL patch across that many versions,
> multiplied by the number of Postgres branches in need of patching :)

I have done nothing for 0003 yet. Let's wait a bit and see if others
have more arguments in favor of it or not.

> I have applied 0001 on HEAD for now as that's a simple cleanup (I
> would not backpatch that though). For 0002, I would prefer be sure
> that we reach the right conclusion. My take is to:
> 1) Apply 0002 only on HEAD to remove the check for clear_options.
> 2) Apply something like Daniel's patch in [1] for REL_12_STABLE and
> REL_11_STABLE as we care about this routine since e3bdb2d to not mess
> up with past versions of NetBSD which worked previously on our
> released branches. (The patch looks fine at quick glance and I
> haven't tested it yet)

0002 is now applied, and did things as described in the above
paragraph.
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Michael