Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend
Date: 2021-06-03 20:55:45
Message-ID: 93659.1622753745@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> 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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