Re: ssl passphrase callback

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:37 AM Andrew Dunstan
<andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> This patch provides a hook for a function that can supply an SSL
> passphrase. The hook can be filled in by a shared preloadable module. In
> order for that to be effective, the startup order is modified slightly.
> There is a test attached that builds and uses one trivial
> implementation, which just takes a configuration setting and rot13's it
> before supplying the result as the passphrase.

It seems to me that it would be a lot better to have an example in
contrib that does something which might be of actual use to users,
such as running a shell command and reading the passphrase from
stdout.

Features that are only accessible by writing C code are, in general,
not as desirable as features which can be accessed via SQL or
configuration.

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