Re: [BUGS] BUG #14260: psqlODBC does not support sslXXXXX variables

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:00 PM,  <krayner@raynersoft.net> wrote:
> Bug reference:      14260
> Logged by:          Kurt Rayner
> Email address:      krayner@raynersoft.net
> PostgreSQL version: 9.5.3
> Operating system:   Windows
> Description:

Postgres ODBC and Postgres server code are two different things. Note
that the last versions of the Postgres ODBC driver have a hard
dependency with libpq, but I guess you know that. By the way,
pgsql-bugs applies to bugs of Postgres code code, as this is an
ODBC-related problem I am moving this thread to pgsql-odbc.

> pSQLODBC does not accept the sslXXX options for OpenSSL that other database
> clients do):
> sslcert
> sslkey
> sslrootcert
> sslcrl
> sslcipher (doesn't appear to be supported by libpq).
>
> This is more of a deficiency, but in a multi-threaded client where each
> connection can have different values putenv() really doesn't cut it.

Agreed. hose are definitely missing from ConnInfo and should be
enforced in LIBPQ_connect@connection.c when passing the list of libpq
parameters to PQconnectDBParams. I have not looked at the code in
details, but this also needs some work in the files dlg_*.c to be able
to build correctly, and this needs dedicated parameters for the .ini
configuration file.

> Not sure what the process is for acceptance of updates, but if I can
> help...

Patches are welcome! Development of ODBC is an on-going process.
--
Michael