On 6/3/21 1:47 PM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: >> On 3 Jun 2021, at 19:37, Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2020-10-27 at 23:39 -0700, Andres Freund wrote: >>> Maybe we should just have --with-ssl={openssl,nss}? That'd avoid >>> needing >>> to check for errors. >> [ apologies for the late reply ] >> >> Would it be more proper to call it --with-tls={openssl,nss} ? > Well, we use SSL for everything else (GUCs, connection params and env vars > etc) > so I think --with-ssl is sensible. > > However, SSL and TLS are used quite interchangeably these days so I think it > makes sense to provide --with-tls as an alias. >
Yeah, but it's annoying to have to start every talk I give touching this subject with the slide that says "When we say SSL we really means TLS". Maybe release 15 would be a good time to rename user-visible option names etc, with support for legacy names. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com