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From: Stephen Frost <[email protected]>
To: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: Jacob Champion <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 10:15:15 -0400
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In-Reply-To: <YGVHr/[email protected]>
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Greetings,

* Michael Paquier ([email protected]) wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 10:15:15PM +0000, Jacob Champion wrote:
> > I think we're going to need some analogue to PQinitOpenSSL() to help
> > client applications cut through the mess, but I'm not sure what it
> > should look like, or how we would maintain any sort of API
> > compatibility between the two flavors. And does libpq already have some
> > notion of a "main thread" that I'm missing?
> 
> Nope as far as I recall.  With OpenSSL, the initialization of the SSL
> mutex lock and the crypto callback initialization is done by the first
> thread in.

Yeah, we haven't got any such concept in libpq.  I do think that some of
this can simply be documented as "if you do this, then you need to make
sure to do this".

Thanks,

Stephen


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