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Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

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From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, Jacob Champion <pchampion@vmware.com>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, "hlinnaka@iki.fi" <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, "andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com" <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, "michael@paquier.xyz" <michael@paquier.xyz>, "thomas.munro@gmail.com" <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, "sfrost@snowman.net" <sfrost@snowman.net>
Date: 2022-01-28T14:08:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
>>> Can we propose a patch to document them? Don't want to get bitten by this
>>> suddenly changing...
>> 
>> I can certainly propose something on their mailinglist, but I unfortunately
>> wouldn't get my hopes up too high as NSS and documentation aren't exactly best
>> friends (the in-tree docs doesn't cover the API and Mozilla recently removed
>> most of the online docs in their neverending developer site reorg).
> 
> Kinda makes me question the wisdom of starting to depend on NSS. When openssl
> docs are vastly outshining a library's, that library really should start to
> ask itself some hard questions.

Sadly, there is that.  While this is not a new problem, Mozilla has been making
some very weird decisions around NSS governance as of late.  Another data point
is the below thread from libcurl:

    https://curl.se/mail/lib-2022-01/0120.html

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Daniel Gustafsson		https://vmware.com/

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