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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: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, 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>
Date: 2022-02-01T10:09:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> On 31 Jan 2022, at 22:48, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>> On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:24, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:

>> I agree that it's concerning to hear that OpenLDAP dropped support for
>> NSS... though I don't seem to be able to find any information as to why
>> they decided to do so.
> 
> I was also unable to do that.  There is no information that I could see in
> either the commit message, Bugzilla entry (#9207) or on the mailinglist.
> Searching the web didn't yield anything either.  I've reached out to hopefully
> get a bit more information.

Support issues and Red Hat dropping OpenLDAP was cited [0] as the main drivers
for dropping NSS.

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Daniel Gustafsson		https://vmware.com/

[0] https://curl.se/mail/lib-2022-02/0000.html

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