Re: OpenSSL 3.0.0 compatibility

On Fri, 2020-05-29 at 00:16 +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> Since OpenSSL is now releasing 3.0.0-alpha versions, I took a look at using it
> with postgres to see what awaits us.  As it is now shipping in releases (with
> GA planned for Q4), users will probably soon start to test against it so I
> wanted to be prepared.
> 
> Regarding the deprecations, we can either set preprocessor directives or use
> compiler flags to silence the warning and do nothing (for now), or we could
> update to the new API.  We probably want to different things for master vs
> back-branches, but as an illustration of what the latter could look like I've
> implemented this in 0001.

An important question will be: if we convert to functions that are not deprecated,
what is the earliest OpenSSL version we can support?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe