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Re: Fwd: [PATCHES] Preliminary GSSAPI Patches

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>, josh@agliodbs.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Date: 2007-05-01T21:37:49Z
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"Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov> writes:
> Windows?  I don't do Windows, so I'm guessing.

> If you accept that Microsoft's SSPI is a flavor of GSSAPI, then  
> GSSAPI is more widely supported and probably more stable on Windows  
> machines than OpenSSL is.

I can't speak to the situation on Windows either; if OpenSSL isn't
commonly used on Windows that may be a sufficient reason for supporting
GSSAPI too.  I'm just unconvinced by any argument that suggests we'll
replace our SSL support with it.

			regards, tom lane