> This error is shown after choose the language in the
> installation of Postgresql 8.0.3 in windows 2000:
>
> "The installer has detected an incompatible version of
> OpenSSL installed in your system PATH. PostgreSQL requires
> OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later. If you remove your OpenSSL files
> (LIBEAY32.DLL and SSLEAY32.DLL) the installer will install
> the new versioon automatically. "
>
> but when i press OK installation seems to be normal. I didn't
> delete the files because i don't know if these new files can
> change something in another program. The installation
> finished and i don't know if my database won't have any
> problem becauseof this error. Were the files updated? do i
> have to install again?
You will most likely run into problems *if* you enable SSL connections.
As long as you don't use SSL connections, you should be fine. It's for
just tihs reason that the instlaler proceeds even though it detects a
problem - it might not affect you.
The files were *not* updated. If you are going to use the SSL
functionality, you need to get them upgraded. One way is to remove the
old ones and then reinstlal postgresql. If you don't want to do that,
you can just grab the latest openssl DLLs from their site and replace
the files with them, and postgresql will happily use this.
For 8.1 we'll use OpenSSL libraries stored in the postgresql directory,
so they will not conflict with whatever is on your system already.
//Magnus