Re: [PATCH] Automatic client certificate selection support for libpq v1

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Seth Robertson <in-pgsql-hackers(at)baka(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Automatic client certificate selection support for libpq v1
Date: 2009-05-11 16:59:16
Message-ID: 200905111959.18017.peter_e@gmx.net
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On Monday 11 May 2009 11:02:17 Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Another thought: if we were to make ourselves support multiple SSL
> libraries (that has been suggested before - at that point, people wanted
> GnuTLS), we could also add support for Windows SChannel, which I'm sure
> some win32 people would certainly prefer - much easier to do SSL
> deployments within an existing MS infrastructure...
>
> But no, that certainly wouldn't *reduce* the amount of code...

We'll call that Plan C: Making PostgreSQL the first piece of software in the
world to support four different crypto libraries. ;-)

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