Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage
Date
Msg-id 1297453628-sup-7337@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage  (Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com>)
Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage  (<Charles.McDevitt@emc.com>)
Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
Excerpts from Greg Smith's message of vie feb 11 14:51:17 -0300 2011:

> So where are we at?
> 
> -GNU libreadine is certainly never going to add an OpenSSL exemption
> -If the OpenSSL project was going to switch to a reasonable license, 
> they'd have done it years ago
> -There are many known and serious bugs/limitations in libedit relative 
> to libreadline
> -Adding GnuTLS support to PostgreSQL would require solving several code 
> quality issues

Why do we have to involve the whole of PostgreSQL?  Since the only piece
that links to libreadline is psql, perhaps we could fix this by having
only psql optionally use GnuTLS.  (I don't know if you can make an
OpenSSL server talk to a GnuTLS client -- are these things supposed to
be interoperable?)

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
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