Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 06:47:17PM +0000, Jacob Champion wrote:
> So to check understanding: the `openssl` config variable is still alive
> for MSVC builds; it just turns that into `--with-ssl=openssl` in the
> fake CONFIGURE_ARGS?

Yeah, I think that keeping both variables separated in the MSVC
scripts is the most straight-forward option, as this passes down a
path. Once there is a value for nss, we'd need to properly issue an
error if both OpenSSL and NSS are specified.

> Since SSL is an obsolete term, and the choice of OpenSSL vs NSS vs
> [nothing] affects server operation (such as cryptohash) regardless of
> whether or not connection-level TLS is actually used, what would you
> all think about naming this option --with-crypto? I.e.
>
> --with-crypto=openssl
> --with-crypto=nss

Looking around, curl has multiple switches for each lib with one named
--with-ssl for OpenSSL, but it needs to be able to use multiple
libraries at run time. I can spot that libssh2 uses what you are
proposing. It seems to me that --with-ssl is a bit more popular but
not by that much: wget, wayland, some apache stuff (it uses a path as
option value). Anyway, what you are suggesting sounds like a good in
the context of Postgres. Daniel?
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Michael