Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
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: 2021-06-03T20:14:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 15:53 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 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.

Sounds good to me, though I haven't looked into how big of a diff that
will be.

Also, do we have precedent for GUC aliases? That might be a little
weird.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis





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  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