Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend
Date: 2021-06-03 17:47:45
Message-ID: D187206C-B942-484B-AB39-5AD25191D6AB@yesql.se
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> On 3 Jun 2021, at 19:37, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2020-10-27 at 23:39 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
>> Maybe we should just have --with-ssl={openssl,nss}? That'd avoid
>> needing
>> to check for errors.
>
> [ apologies for the late reply ]
>
> Would it be more proper to call it --with-tls={openssl,nss} ?

Well, we use SSL for everything else (GUCs, connection params and env vars etc)
so I think --with-ssl is sensible.

However, SSL and TLS are used quite interchangeably these days so I think it
makes sense to provide --with-tls as an alias.

--
Daniel Gustafsson https://vmware.com/

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