Re: [HACKERS] GnuTLS support

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] GnuTLS support
Date: 2018-11-29 21:27:20
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYxfe+yo1WkXEgSA9tEp86gYS3DkRuNmGpZbjVnEuhZmA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 8:28 AM Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 29/11/2018 13:28, Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
> > Unfortunately it needs to be rebased one more time, could you do this? Also I'm
> > wondering about this:
> >
> >> I'm moving this patch forward to CF 2018-09, since it's not going to be
> >> ready for -07, and we're still whacking around some channel binding
> >> details, which would potentially interfere with this patch.
> >
> > Were you talking about this one [1]? As far as I see it's not a concern
> > anymore? I'll move it to the next CF.
>
> I have decided that I don't want to pursue this patch anymore. It has
> served its purpose having allowed us to refine the SSL library
> abstractions so that alternative implementations such as macOS Secure
> Transport can go ahead. But officially supporting GnuTLS as an
> alternative to OpenSSL doesn't seem to have any practical advantages, so
> I don't foresee this getting committed into PostgreSQL core.

Hmm, I find that a bit disappointing. I'm not in a position to take up
the patch right now, unfortunately.

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Robert Haas
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