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Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-06-03T19:53:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 6/3/21 1:47 PM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 3 Jun 2021, at 19:37, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 2020-10-27 at 23:39 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> Maybe we should just have --with-ssl={openssl,nss}? That'd avoid
>>> needing
>>> to check for errors.
>> [ apologies for the late reply ]
>>
>> Would it be more proper to call it --with-tls={openssl,nss} ?
> Well, we use SSL for everything else (GUCs, connection params and env vars etc)
> so I think --with-ssl is sensible.
>
> However, SSL and TLS are used quite interchangeably these days so I think it
> makes sense to provide --with-tls as an alias.
>

Yeah, but it's annoying to have to start every talk I give touching this
subject with the slide that says "When we say SSL we really means TLS".
Maybe release 15 would be a good time to rename user-visible option
names etc, with support for legacy names.


cheers


andrew


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