Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> PQinitSSL is *broken*. It's always been broken. Since it already
>>> takes a parameter, I say add a special switch...the backwards
>>> compatibility danger doesn't seem too bad.
>> Add a switch to what? I get very nervous for our Windows users when
>> people start talking about changing the libpq API (for those that
>> don't know, Windows doesn't have DLL versioning like Unix - so any
>> non-backwards compatible API change really needs a corresponding
>> filename change to avoid pain and suffering).
>
> PQinitSSL(SSL_ONLY) or something, where the constant is carefully
> chosen to not be accidentally passed in by older libpq users.
So how are you planinng to deal with it when your application passes
that to a version of libpq that doesn't support it?
//Magnus