Re: [HACKERS] GnuTLS support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: [HACKERS] GnuTLS support
Date
Msg-id 20181129214112.wc5glniaz4g3lnd7@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] GnuTLS support  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] GnuTLS support  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Hi,

On 2018-11-29 16:34:13 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Yeah, I was disappointed too.  OpenSSL has had a squirrelly enough track
> record that it'd be nice not to be totally dependent on it.

GnuTLS seems, if anything, worse though. There's obviously good reasons
to add support for TLS libraries that make it easier to use PG on
certain platforms, but GnuTLS doesn't achieve that.  So I don't think
this is too sad.

- Andres


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