Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Jacob Champion <pchampion(at)vmware(dot)com>, "hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi" <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, "andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com" <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com" <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, "andres(at)anarazel(dot)de" <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net" <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend
Date: 2021-02-10 12:17:33
Message-ID: DDC8E390-1044-4693-AE34-81731B2291FA@yesql.se
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> On 10 Feb 2021, at 08:23, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 10:30:52AM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> It can be, it's not the most pressing patch scope reduction but everything
>> helps of course.
>
> Okay. I have spent some time on this one and finished it.

Thanks, I'll post a rebased version on top of this soon.

>> Thanks. That patch is slightly more interesting in terms of reducing scope
>> here, but I also think it makes the test code a bit easier to digest when
>> certificate management is abstracted into the API rather than the job of the
>> testfile to perform.
>
> That's my impression. Still, I am wondering if there could be a
> different approach. I need to think more about that first..

Another option could be to roll SSL config into PostgresNode and expose SSL
connections to every subsystem tested with TAP. Something like:

$node = get_new_node(..);
$node->setup_ssl(..);
$node->set_certificate(..);

That is a fair bit more work though, but perhaps we could then easier find
(and/or prevent) bugs like the one fixed in a45bc8a4f6495072bc48ad40a5aa03.

--
Daniel Gustafsson https://vmware.com/

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