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Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> writes:
> For 2-3, shouldn't we error at an earlier stage? The user of the client
> has requested something impossible to satisfy.

Can't get excited about that.  It'd require duplicating this code
somewhere else, which is a maintenance issue.  And the case of building
with obsolete OpenSSL ought to be fairly infrequent and getting more so
as time goes on, so I'm not really eager to expend lots of work on it.

			regards, tom lane