Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend
Date
Msg-id e3c34e7b-900e-7e32-f60b-a278a1eb743a@2ndQuadrant.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend  (Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>)
Responses Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend  (Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>)
List pgsql-hackers
On 8/4/20 5:42 PM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 3 Aug 2020, at 21:18, Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> On 8/3/20 12:46 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> On 7/31/20 4:44 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>> OK, here is an update of your patch that compiles and runs against NSS
>>>> under Windows (VS2019).
> Out of curiosity since I'm not familiar with Windows, how hard/easy is it to
> install NSS for the purpose of a) hacking on postgres+NSS and b) using postgres
> with NSS as the backend?




I've laid out the process at
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/nss-on-windows-for-postgresql-development/


>>> OK, this version contains pre-generated nss files, and passes a full
>>> buildfarm run including the ssl test module, with both openssl and NSS.
>>> That should keep the cfbot happy :-)
> Exciting, thanks a lot for helping out on this!  I've started to look at the
> required documentation changes during vacation, will hopefully be able to post
> something soon.
>


Good. Having got the tests running cleanly on Linux, I'm now going back
to work on that for Windows.


After that I'll look at the hook/callback stuff.


cheers


andrew



-- 
Andrew Dunstan                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services




pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Peter Geoghegan
Date:
Subject: Re: new heapcheck contrib module
Next
From: Peter Geoghegan
Date:
Subject: Re: Hybrid Hash/Nested Loop joins and caching results from subplans