| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Michael Banck <mbanck(at)debian(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage |
| Date: | 2011-02-11 19:18:21 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTikF_SSCzHxM_AZkGY8Bz-oCQrcKAYxLg2JUbNUY@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 20:09, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Stephen Frost wrote:
>
> -Adding GnuTLS support to PostgreSQL would require solving several
> code quality issues
>
>
> I'm curious about this, but I don't know that I've got time to dive into
> it and solve it. :/
>
>
> Note that the past discussion was on the difficulty of matching the existing
> OpenSSL API using GnuTLS, which is apparently difficult to do. I wasn't
> trying to suggest there were issues specificially with GnuTLS's code
> quality. It's more that the APIs are just different enough that it's not
> trivial to do a swap--which is surprising given how many people have
> seemingly needed to do exactly this conversion. You'd think there'd be a
> simple "OpenSSL-like" interface available for GnuTLS by now or something.
There is one, but it's not complete - it will work for simple users,
though, AFAIK.
--
Magnus Hagander
Me: http://www.hagander.net/
Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
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