On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Ashesh Vashi < ashesh.va...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> >> Why are we talking about using the external application here? > Because I suggested giving it some thought in case it turns out we have no other option. > The only problem with the current implementation - is that it does use new > APIs for tunneling. > We can change the implementation based on the current supplied libssh2 on > most linux flavours. > i.e. libssh2 - 1.2.7 or later > > I have asked Akshay to check - if we can modify the current implementation > to use the older version of libssh2. (feasibility) > I've already asked him to investigate whether there is another API that may be used that he may have missed. Only supporting old versions of libssh2 is unacceptable though - we need to support current versions, and ideally older ones as well for compatibility with Ubuntu/Debian/RHEL etc. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
