Re: PQgetssl() and alternative SSL implementations

* Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> Stephen Frost wrote:
> > Yeah, that's what I remembered.  There was an attempt to make that
> > change at one point, but it was reverted due to the lack of batching
> > ability in libpq (without resorting to cursors, as I recall...),
> > requiring double the memory usage.  Still, if pqsecure_read and
> > pqsecure_write are sufficient to make the ODBC driver work, that's good
> > news.  I had been worried it did other things with the OpenSSL struct
> > beyond just using those.
>
> Um, libpq has recently gained the ability to return result fragments,
> right?  Those didn't exist when libpq-ification of odbc was attempted,
> as I recall -- perhaps it's possible now.

I was trying to remember off-hand if we still had that or not..  I
thought there was discussion about removing it, actually, but perhaps
that was something else.

I agree that having that would definitely help with the ODBC driver.
Thanks,
    Stephen