On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@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

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