Re: Practical impediment to supporting multiple SSL libraries

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Hiroshi Inoue <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
Subject: Re: Practical impediment to supporting multiple SSL libraries
Date: 2006-04-14 17:05:11
Message-ID: 11127.1145034311@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> Perhaps a far easier approach would be to indeed just have a hijack
> interface that provides read/write over whatever protocol libpq
> negotiated.

Well, there's a precedent to look at: the original implementation of
COPY mode was pretty nearly exactly that. And it sucked, and eventually
we changed it. So I'd be pretty leery of repeating the experience...

regards, tom lane

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