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To: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
To: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Postgres hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Frost <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 15:53:59 -0400
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On 6/3/21 1:47 PM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 3 Jun 2021, at 19:37, Jeff Davis <[email protected]> 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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Andrew Dunstan
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