Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend

Jacob Champion <pchampion@vmware.com>

From: Jacob Champion <pchampion@vmware.com>

To: "daniel@yesql.se" <daniel@yesql.se>

Cc: "sfrost@snowman.net" <sfrost@snowman.net>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, "hlinnaka@iki.fi" <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, "andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com" <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, "rachelmheaton@gmail.com" <rachelmheaton@gmail.com>, "thomas.munro@gmail.com" <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, "michael@paquier.xyz" <michael@paquier.xyz>, "andres@anarazel.de" <andres@anarazel.de>

Date: 2021-10-04T16:14:37Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Attachments

since-v43.diff.txt (text/plain)
v44-0001-nss-Support-libnss-as-TLS-library-in-libpq.patch (text/x-patch) patch v44-0001
v44-0002-Refactor-SSL-testharness-for-multiple-library.patch (text/x-patch) patch v44-0002
v44-0003-nss-Add-NSS-specific-tests.patch (text/x-patch) patch v44-0003
v44-0004-test-check-for-empty-stderr-during-connect_ok.patch (text/x-patch) patch v44-0004
v44-0005-nss-pg_strong_random-support.patch (text/x-patch) patch v44-0005
v44-0006-nss-Documentation.patch (text/x-patch) patch v44-0006
v44-0007-nss-Support-NSS-in-pgcrypto.patch (text/x-patch) patch v44-0007
v44-0008-nss-Support-NSS-in-sslinfo.patch (text/x-patch) patch v44-0008
v44-0009-nss-Support-NSS-in-cryptohash.patch (text/x-patch) patch v44-0009
v44-0010-nss-Build-infrastructure.patch (text/x-patch) patch v44-0010

On Fri, 2021-10-01 at 08:55 +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> Ah, that makes perfect sense.  I was too focused on hunting in what new was
> linked against that I overlooked the obvious.  Thanks for finding these.

No problem at all :) The exit() check is useful but still a little
opaque, I think, especially since (from my newbie perspective) there's
so much of the pgcommon staticlib that is forbidden for use in libpq.

Fixed in v44, attached; changes in since-v43.diff.txt.

--Jacob

Commits

Add tab-completion for CREATE FOREIGN TABLE.
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Add tap tests for the schema publications.
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Move Perl test modules to a better namespace
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Adjust configure to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3.
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Simplify code related to compilation of SSL and OpenSSL
- 092b785fad3d 14.0 landed
Introduce --with-ssl={openssl} as a configure option
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Implement support for bulk inserts in postgres_fdw
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Fix redundant error messages in client tools
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doc: Apply more consistently <productname> markup for OpenSSL
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Check ssl_in_use flag when reporting statistics
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