diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 56c4aaa95b..3d9bd0bdf8 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -12094,13 +12094,13 @@ else
 fi
 
   fi
-  for ac_func in SSL_clear_options X509_get_signature_nid
+  # Function introduced in OpenSSL 1.0.2.
+  for ac_func in X509_get_signature_nid
 do :
-  as_ac_var=`$as_echo "ac_cv_func_$ac_func" | $as_tr_sh`
-ac_fn_c_check_func "$LINENO" "$ac_func" "$as_ac_var"
-if eval test \"x\$"$as_ac_var"\" = x"yes"; then :
+  ac_fn_c_check_func "$LINENO" "X509_get_signature_nid" "ac_cv_func_X509_get_signature_nid"
+if test "x$ac_cv_func_X509_get_signature_nid" = xyes; then :
   cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
-#define `$as_echo "HAVE_$ac_func" | $as_tr_cpp` 1
+#define HAVE_X509_GET_SIGNATURE_NID 1
 _ACEOF
 
 fi
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 9fd9c390e6..34aea0b4ac 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1186,7 +1186,8 @@ if test "$with_openssl" = yes ; then
      AC_SEARCH_LIBS(CRYPTO_new_ex_data, [eay32 crypto], [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([library 'eay32' or 'crypto' is required for OpenSSL])])
      AC_SEARCH_LIBS(SSL_new, [ssleay32 ssl], [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([library 'ssleay32' or 'ssl' is required for OpenSSL])])
   fi
-  AC_CHECK_FUNCS([SSL_clear_options X509_get_signature_nid])
+  # Function introduced in OpenSSL 1.0.2.
+  AC_CHECK_FUNCS([X509_get_signature_nid])
   # Functions introduced in OpenSSL 1.1.0. We used to check for
   # OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER, but that didn't work with 1.1.0, because LibreSSL
   # defines OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER to claim version 2.0.0, even though it
diff --git a/src/include/pg_config.h.in b/src/include/pg_config.h.in
index 0d77f2aafd..050c48b108 100644
--- a/src/include/pg_config.h.in
+++ b/src/include/pg_config.h.in
@@ -512,9 +512,6 @@
 /* Define to 1 if you have the `srandom' function. */
 #undef HAVE_SRANDOM
 
-/* Define to 1 if you have the `SSL_clear_options' function. */
-#undef HAVE_SSL_CLEAR_OPTIONS
-
 /* Define to 1 if stdbool.h conforms to C99. */
 #undef HAVE_STDBOOL_H
 
diff --git a/src/include/pg_config.h.win32 b/src/include/pg_config.h.win32
index 467fb89ee6..09cedd0bda 100644
--- a/src/include/pg_config.h.win32
+++ b/src/include/pg_config.h.win32
@@ -370,9 +370,6 @@
 /* Define to 1 if you have the `srandom' function. */
 /* #undef HAVE_SRANDOM */
 
-/* Define to 1 if you have the `SSL_clear_options' function. */
-#define HAVE_SSL_CLEAR_OPTIONS 1
-
 /* Define to 1 if stdbool.h conforms to C99. */
 #define HAVE_STDBOOL_H 1
 
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure-openssl.c b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure-openssl.c
index cba81f63c0..c71da75cfd 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure-openssl.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure-openssl.c
@@ -1198,17 +1198,8 @@ initialize_SSL(PGconn *conn)
 #ifdef SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION
 	if (conn->sslcompression && conn->sslcompression[0] == '0')
 		SSL_set_options(conn->ssl, SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION);
-
-	/*
-	 * Mainline OpenSSL introduced SSL_clear_options() before
-	 * SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION, so this following #ifdef should not be
-	 * necessary, but some old NetBSD version have a locally modified libssl
-	 * that has SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION but not SSL_clear_options().
-	 */
-#ifdef HAVE_SSL_CLEAR_OPTIONS
 	else
 		SSL_clear_options(conn->ssl, SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION);
-#endif
 #endif
 
 	return 0;