Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend

> On 2 Nov 2020, at 15:17, Andrew Dunstan  wrote:

> We could generalize that saving mechanism and do it if any module
> required it. But instead of testing against a different branch, we'd
> test against a different animal. So we'd have two animals, one building
> with openssl and one with nss, and they would test against each other
> (i.e. one as the client and one as the sever, and vice versa).

That seems like a very good plan.  It would also allow us to test a backend
compiled with OpenSSL 1.0.2 against a frontend with OpenSSL 1.1.1 which might
come in handy when OpenSSL 3.0.0 lands.

> This would involve a deal of work on my part, but it's very doable, I
> believe.

I have no experience with the buildfarm code, but I'm happy to help if theres
anything I can do.

cheers ./daniel