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

From David Blewett
Subject Re: [PATCH] Automatic client certificate selection support for libpq v1
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Msg-id 9d1f8d830905080944m488437f2pe924c46dd41ea0b6@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Automatic client certificate selection support for libpq v1  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Seth Robertson <in-pgsql-hackers@baka.org> writes:
>> I had a situation where I needed to connect to multiple postgresql
>> servers in a variety of programs written in a variety of languages,
>> including some which connected to multiple servers at the same time.
>> As some of you might know, you cannot usefully put multiple
>> certificates or keys in the postgresql.crt/.key files.
>
> Hmm, shouldn't we fix *that* rather than inventing a hack like this?

Possibly a la SSH's authorized_keys or known_hosts formats?

David


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