From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> writes:
> On 28.04.26 22:32, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> Here's a full set of patches for back-patching purposes.
>> protocol_openssl.c has a similar problem on older versions.  I suppose this
>> is the sort of thing I could back-patch all the way to v9.2.  Does anyone
>> feel strongly one way or the other about that?

> Why should this be backpatched at all?

To silence those warnings.  If you're using a Mac for development,
they're pretty annoying.  And we have generally had a policy of
trying to silence warnings in still-interesting branches.

			regards, tom lane