Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 9:08 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> > 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.

Yeah, OpenSSL is very poor, so being worse is not good.

> 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

I would really, really like to have an alternative to OpenSSL for PG.
I don't know if this is the right thing, though. If other people are
dropping support for it, that's a pretty bad sign IMHO. Later in the
thread it says OpenLDAP have dropped support for it already as well.

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Robert Haas
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