Re: [PATCH] Automatic client certificate selection support for libpq v1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: [PATCH] Automatic client certificate selection support for libpq v1
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Msg-id 4A0859CA.8080802@hagander.net
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Automatic client certificate selection support for libpq v1  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Monday 11 May 2009 11:02:17 Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Another thought: if we were to make ourselves support multiple SSL
>> libraries (that has been suggested before - at that point, people wanted
>> GnuTLS), we could also add support for Windows SChannel, which I'm sure
>> some win32 people would certainly prefer - much easier to do SSL
>> deployments within an existing MS infrastructure...
>>
>> But no, that certainly wouldn't *reduce* the amount of code...
> 
> We'll call that Plan C: Making PostgreSQL the first piece of software in the 
> world to support four different crypto libraries. ;-)

I could've sworn curl did :-) But it turns out they do SChannel
*through* OpenSSL. :-) So we can probably live with that ;)

//Magnus



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