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.
merlin