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From: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Postgres hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Frost <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 16:38:38 -0400
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On 8/4/20 5:42 PM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 3 Aug 2020, at 21:18, Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 8/3/20 12:46 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> On 7/31/20 4:44 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>> OK, here is an update of your patch that compiles and runs against NSS
>>>> under Windows (VS2019).
> Out of curiosity since I'm not familiar with Windows, how hard/easy is it to
> install NSS for the purpose of a) hacking on postgres+NSS and b) using postgres
> with NSS as the backend?




I've laid out the process at
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/nss-on-windows-for-postgresql-development/


>>> OK, this version contains pre-generated nss files, and passes a full
>>> buildfarm run including the ssl test module, with both openssl and NSS.
>>> That should keep the cfbot happy :-)
> Exciting, thanks a lot for helping out on this!  I've started to look at the
> required documentation changes during vacation, will hopefully be able to post
> something soon.
>


Good. Having got the tests running cleanly on Linux, I'm now going back
to work on that for Windows.


After that I'll look at the hook/callback stuff.


cheers


andrew



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