Re: Replace current implementations in crypt() and gen_salt() to OpenSSL

> On 23 Nov 2024, at 17:13, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote:

> I do wonder if the GUC should be PGC_POSTMASTER (as I had suggested it ought to be in an earlier post) rather than
PGC_SUSET(which was the way my posted patch had it). But perhaps PGC_SUSET is sufficient, and it makes testing easier. 

I copied PGC_SUSET from your patch, since I think it seems sufficient for this.

> One other question this spawned -- do we document the minimum supported version of OpenSSL anywhere? I remembered it
hadrecently been increased, but could only find confirmation in the git logs that 1.1.1 was now the minimum. 

It's documented under installation requirements in the docs, where the 17 docs
currently state 1.0.2 as the minimum:

    https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/install-requirements.html

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Daniel Gustafsson