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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
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Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
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Cc: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2021 16:55:45 -0400
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Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]> writes:
> It might also put us a hard spot if the next TLS spec ends up being called
> something other than TLS?  It's clearly happened before =)

Good point.  I'm inclined to just stick with the SSL terminology.

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

> I don't think we do currently, but I have a feeling the topic has surfaced here
> before.

We do, look for "sort_mem" in guc.c.  So it's not like it'd be
inconvenient to implement.  But I think user confusion and the
potential for the new terminology to fail to be any more
future-proof are good reasons to just leave the names alone.

			regards, tom lane

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