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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: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, 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: 2022-01-28T15:10:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> On 28 Jan 2022, at 15:30, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 9:08 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Yeah, OpenSSL is very poor, so being worse is not good.

Some background on this for anyone interested: Mozilla removed the
documentation from the MDN website and the attempt at resurrecting it in the
tree (where it should've been all along </rant>) isn't making much progress.
Some more can be found in this post on the NSS mailinglist:

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-tech-crypto/c/p0MO7030K4A/m/Mx5St_2sAwAJ

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Daniel Gustafsson		https://vmware.com/

Commits

  1. Add tab-completion for CREATE FOREIGN TABLE.

  2. Add tap tests for the schema publications.

  3. Move Perl test modules to a better namespace

  4. Adjust configure to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3.

  5. Simplify code related to compilation of SSL and OpenSSL

  6. Introduce --with-ssl={openssl} as a configure option

  7. Implement support for bulk inserts in postgres_fdw

  8. Fix redundant error messages in client tools

  9. doc: Apply more consistently <productname> markup for OpenSSL

  10. Check ssl_in_use flag when reporting statistics