Re: Refactor SSL test framework to support multiple TLS libraries

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2021-03-24T23:26:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2021-Mar-25, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:

> Attached is a v2 which addresses the comments raised on the main NSS thread, as
> well as introduces named parameters for the server cert function to make the
> test code easier to read.

I don't like this patch.  I think your SSL::Server::OpenSSL and
SSL::Server::NSS packages should be doing "use parent SSL::Server";
having SSL::Server grow a line to "use" its subclass
SSL::Server::OpenSSL and import its get_new_openssl_backend() method
seems to go against the grain.

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Álvaro Herrera                            39°49'30"S 73°17'W



Commits

  1. Move some client-specific routines from SSLServer to PostgresNode

  2. Stop requiring an explicit return from perl subroutines