While browsing through all our global variables for the multithreading
effort, I noticed that our MD5 implementation in src/common/md5.c uses a
static buffer on big-endian systems, which makes it not thread-safe.
That's a bug because that function is also used in libpq.
This was introduced in commit b67b57a966, which replaced the old MD5
fallback implementation with the one from pgcrypto. The thread-safety
didn't matter for pgcrypto, but for libpq it does.
This only affects big-endian systems that are compiled without OpenSSL.
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Heikki Linnakangas
Neon (https://neon.tech)