Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 20:09, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Stephen Frost wrote:
>
> -Adding GnuTLS support to PostgreSQL would require solving several
> code quality issues
>
>
> I'm curious about this, but I don't know that I've got time to dive into
> it and solve it. :/
>
>
> Note that the past discussion was on the difficulty of matching the existing
> OpenSSL API using GnuTLS, which is apparently difficult to do.  I wasn't
> trying to suggest there were issues specificially with GnuTLS's code
> quality.  It's more that the APIs are just different enough that it's not
> trivial to do a swap--which is surprising given how many people have
> seemingly needed to do exactly this conversion.  You'd think there'd be a
> simple "OpenSSL-like" interface available for GnuTLS by now or something.

There is one, but it's not complete - it will work for simple users,
though, AFAIK.

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