On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 08:38:07PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Is this like detecting of libpq is SSL-enabled? I see PQgetssl(). Do
> we need to add a libpq function to return true/false for threading?
> Slony requires a threaded libpq, so it could do the test to prevent
> wrong configurations. It would be nice to enabled threading by default,
> but it is like SSL in that not all operating systems support it.
PQgetssl() doesn't tell you if SSL is supported, it tells you if the
*current connection* is using OpenSSL, which is similar but not the
same.
There is AFAIK no way to tell if SSL support is compiled in. Part of
the patch I posted for GnuTLS support answered this question also
(PQgettlsinfo()).
Have a ncie day,
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