On 29/05/18 17:15, Michael Paquier wrote:
Hi all,

While reviewing the MSVC code, I have noticed that pg_config.h.win32 is
forgetting about a couple of flags defined in pg_config.h.in for v11
development.  Forgetting some of them is problematic, and here are the
ones I spotted:
- HAVE_LDAP_INITIALIZE
- HAVE_X509_GET_SIGNATURE_NID
- HAVE_SSL_CLEAR_OPTIONS

HAVE_X509_GET_SIGNATURE_NID is something I worked on for the SCRAM
channel binding, and not having it means that tls-server-end-point is
never supported on Windows.  What we need to do in this case is to
extend the MSVC scripts so as "openssl version" is run once and we parse
the version of OpenSSL from it.  If the version is newer than 1.0.2 then
the function can be used.

For HAVE_LDAP_INITIALIZE, it seems to me that we could get rid of the
ldap_sslinit part, but I have not studied this close enough to reach a
conclusion.

HAVE_SSL_CLEAR_OPTIONS means that sslcompression is not turned off by
default on Windows, which does not look like a good idea to me.

We could treat each issue separately, but the fact that we need to parse
the function string of openssl and/or openldap to do decision-making for
the MSVC script is common to all those issues.

I wouldn't be too sorry to just bump our minimum requirements for Windows, in v11. Assuming that recent-enough versions of OpenLSAP and OpenSSL are readily available on Windows. I think on Windows, you typically bundle the .dlls with the PostgreSQL binaries, so it would be natural to bundle the latest available libraries. And in the unlikely case that you'd want to use older ones, you could still modify pg_config.h.win32 manually.

But yeah, clearly those are missing from pg_config.h.win32 at the moment. It's not actually clear to me, when that file is (supposed to be) updated. Are you supposed to remember to update it, whenever you update pg_config.h.in? Or does someone update it with the results from some canonical MinGW buildfarm member before the release?

- Heikki

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