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Re: ssl passphrase callback

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-11-01T15:01:15Z
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  1. Provide a TLS init hook

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:37 AM Andrew Dunstan
<andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> This patch provides a hook for a function that can supply an SSL
> passphrase. The hook can be filled in by a shared preloadable module. In
> order for that to be effective, the startup order is modified slightly.
> There is a test attached that builds and uses one trivial
> implementation, which just takes a configuration setting and rot13's it
> before supplying the result as the passphrase.

It seems to me that it would be a lot better to have an example in
contrib that does something which might be of actual use to users,
such as running a shell command and reading the passphrase from
stdout.

Features that are only accessible by writing C code are, in general,
not as desirable as features which can be accessed via SQL or
configuration.

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Robert Haas
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