Re: BUG #17391: While using --with-ssl=openssl and PG_TEST_EXTRA='ssl' options, SSL tests fail on OpenBSD 7.0

Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 10:56 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I went ahead and pushed the patches-under-discussion (the larger
>> one only to HEAD, for now). I've confirmed that the ssl tests
>> are solid now under OpenBSD 7.0, on bare metal as well as on the
>> VM I was using before. They are still broken under OpenBSD 6.8,
>> which seems interesting but not so interesting that I want to
>> spend more time on it (seeing that 6.8 is EOL as far as
>> openbsd.org is concerned). Does anyone want to recheck 6.9?

> Looks good:

Thanks for checking!

So I think the remaining question here is whether, and if so when,
to back-patch faa189c93. I'm not sure that the benefit is worth
the risk of new problems (though maybe I'm just feeling particularly
pessimistic because of the regressions we've found in this week's
releases). Leaving aside the behavior of the ssl tests, which
few people would run anyway, it seems like the benefit is just
to replace a not-very-helpful error message with a more-helpful
one. That's worth something, but how much?

regards, tom lane