If it was commited to HEAD, it will appear in 8.1.5, right? On 5/30/06, Bruce Momjian <pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Patch applied to CVS HEAD and 8.1.X. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marko Kreen wrote: > On 5/9/06, Joe Kramer <cckramer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 5/9/06, Marko Kreen <markokr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The fact that Fedora pgcrypto is linked with OpenSSL that does not > > > support SHA256 is not a bug, just a fact. > > > > It's not Fedora only, same problem with Gentoo/portage. > > I think it's problem for all distros. You need recompile pgcrypto or install > > openssl 0.9.8 which is considered as "unstable" by most distros. > > > > Maybe pgcrypto should use built-in algorithms until OpenSSL 0.9.8 is > > mainstream/default install. > > To be honest, pgcrypto actually falls back on built-in code for AES, > in case old OpenSSL that does not have AES. Thats because AES > should be "always there", together with md5/sha1/blowfish. > > I do not consider SHA2 that important (yet?), so they don't > get same treatment. > > > > OTOH, the nicest solution to your problem would be self-compiled > > > pgcrypto, that would work with stock PostgreSQL. As the conflict > > > happens with only (new) SHA2 functions, I can prepare a patch for > > > symbol conflict, would that be satisfactory for you? > > > > Ideally, would be great if pgcrypto could fallback to built-in algorithm of > > OpenSSL don't support it. > > But since it's compile switch, completely seld-compiled pgcrypto would be > > great. > > Attached is a patch that re-defines SHA2 symbols so that they would not > conflict with OpenSSL. > > Now that I think about it, if your OpenSSL does not contain SHA2, then > there should be no conflict. But ofcourse, if someone upgrades OpenSSL, > server starts crashing. So I think its best to always apply this patch. > > I think I'll send the patch to 8.2 later, not sure if it's important > enough for 8.1. > > -- > marko [ Attachment, skipping... ] > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
