Re: PostgreSQL12 and older versions of OpenSSL

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> ... I wonder if we should really continue to support
> OpenSSL 0.9.8.

Fair question, but post-rc1 is no time to be moving that goalpost
for the v12 branch.

> Anyway I suppose it's not impossible that third parties are still
> maintaining their 1.0.0 branch,

Another data point on that is that Red Hat is still supporting
1.0.1e in RHEL6.  I don't think we should assume that just because
OpenSSL upstream has dropped support for a branch, it no longer
exists in the wild.

Having said that, if it makes our lives noticeably easier to
drop support for 0.9.8 in HEAD, I won't stand in the way.

(We should survey the buildfarm and see what the older critters
are running, perhaps.)

            regards, tom lane