Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> "David E. Wheeler" <da...@justatheory.com> writes:
>>> I don’t suppose anyone has looked at what it would take to get PostgreSQL 
>>> use Secure Transport, right?

>> This is going to put a bit more urgency into the project Heikki had been
>> working on to allow use of more than one SSL implementation.  I can't
>> really see us back-porting that, though, which is going to leave things
>> in a fairly nasty place for all pre-9.6 branches ...

> I think it'd be great to finish that project, but having to use
> MacPorts to install the headers isn't really a big deal, is it?

Well, you'd have to use MacPorts' version of the openssl libraries,
too, since there'd be no certainty that their headers match the
Apple-provided libraries (in fact, I'd bet a lot that they don't).
This would be a pain if you wanted to put your compiled PG executables
on some other Mac.

                        regards, tom lane


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