Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend

>>> Can we propose a patch to document them? Don't want to get bitten by this
>>> suddenly changing...
>>
>> I can certainly propose something on their mailinglist, but I unfortunately
>> wouldn't get my hopes up too high as NSS and documentation aren't exactly best
>> friends (the in-tree docs doesn't cover the API and Mozilla recently removed
>> most of the online docs in their neverending developer site reorg).
>
> Kinda makes me question the wisdom of starting to depend on NSS. When openssl
> docs are vastly outshining a library's, that library really should start to
> ask itself some hard questions.

Sadly, there is that.  While this is not a new problem, Mozilla has been making
some very weird decisions around NSS governance as of late.  Another data point
is the below thread from libcurl:

    https://curl.se/mail/lib-2022-01/0120.html

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