Re: Adding support for SSLKEYLOGFILE in the frontend

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Abhishek Chanda <abhishek.becs@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-03-13T18:31:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Adding the PG prefix to the envvar name addresses my collision
> concern, but I think Tom's comment upthread [1] was saying that we
> should not provide any envvar at all:

>> I think it might be safer if we only accepted it as a connection
>> parameter and not via an environment variable.

> Is the addition of the PG prefix enough to address that concern too?

Indeed, I was advocating for *no* environment variable.  The PG prefix
does not comfort me.

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. Fix sslkeylogfile error handling logging

  2. Mark sslkeylogfile as Debug option

  3. libpq: Add support for dumping SSL key material to file