Re: [PATCH v3] GSSAPI encryption support

On 2015-10-22 16:47:09 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Hm, and that's why you chose this way of going. My main concern about
> this patch is that it adds on top of the existing Postgres protocol a
> layer to encrypt and decrypt the messages between server and client
> based on GSSAPI. All messages transmitted between client and server
> are changed to 'g' messages on the fly and switched back to their
> original state at reception. This is symbolized by the four routines
> you added in the patch in this purpose, two for frontend and two for
> backend, each one for encryption and decryption. I may be wrong of
> course, but it seems to me that this approach will not survive
> committer-level screening because of the fact that context-level
> things invade higher level protocol messages.

Agreed. At least one committer here indeed thinks this approach is not
acceptable (and I've said so upthread).

Greetings,

Andres Freund