Re: PQinitSSL broken in some use casesf

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> And we get into the whole question of error handling, which is what
> >> shot down that proposal last time.
> 
> > Can you remind me of the details?  I don't remember that issue.
> > Currently PQinitSSL() returns void, so I don't see an issue there.
> 
> The point is exactly the same as the complaint about turning PQinitSSL's
> argument into a bitmask: if you are trying to define an extensible API
> then you need a way for the app to determine whether all the bits it
> passed were recognizable by the library.

It seems having the init function return the bits it recognized would be
the logical return value.

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