Re: PQinitSSL broken in some use casesf

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PQinitSSL broken in some use casesf
Date: 2009-03-30 15:56:21
Message-ID: 6DD17E57-100E-4751-B6E3-47F60A56376A@hagander.net
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On 30 mar 2009, at 17.24, Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com> wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>> BTW, unless someone objects I'd like to make the name of that
>> function
>> PQinitSecurity.
>
> Agreed. Although, both PQinitSecure and PQinitSecurity are very
> general names. "Security" can mean a lot of things. Maybe the name
> should be more particular, like PQinitOpenSSL. I think its okay to
> reference the openssl project name being how this function is
> designed to work with openssl's library split.
>
+1

It's quite likely that well want to support another ssl library in the
future. At least likely enough that any api we define should take it
into consideration.

/Magnus

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