On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 01:01:17PM -0600, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 7:24 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> We had this
> discussion in relation to archive_command years ago, and decided on a
> shell command as the best API.
>
> I don't recall that from back then, but that was a long time ago.
>
> But it's interesting that you mention it, given the number of people I have
> been discussing that with recently, under the topic of changing it from a shell
> command into a shared library API (with there being a shell command as one
> possible implementation of course).
>
> One of the main reasons there being to be easily able to transfer more state
> and give results other than just an exit code, no need to deal with parameter
> escaping etc. Which probably wouldn't matter as much to an SSL passphrase
> command, but still.
I get the callback-is-easier issue with shared objects, but are we
expecting to pass in more information here than we do for
archive_command? I would think not. What I am saying is that if we
don't think passing things in works, we should fix all these external
commands, or something. I don't see why ssl_passphrase_command is
different, except that it is new. Or is it related to _securely_
passing something?
Also, why was this patch posted without any discussion of these issues?
Shouldn't we ideally discuss the API first?
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