Re: [HACKERS] GnuTLS support

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] GnuTLS support
Date: 2018-01-30 03:33:03
Message-ID: 20180130033303.GB27287@paquier.xyz
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On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 06:24:18PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> FWIW, I'm -0.5 on adding gnutls support. I've not seen any non-vague
> arguments for it, and having debugged gnutls using applications in the
> past, I'm not convinced we're not primarily increasing our workload by
> adding support. If gnutls would improve our windows or OSX situation,
> I'd think differently, but afaics it doesn't.

That's an interesting point. The last patch set presented by Peter
improves the pluggability situation for Windows and OSX as well, so
those are a good addition anyway.
--
Michael

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