It seems the ecosystem is not so keen on moving to aws-lc-rs as it's
build setup is more complicated than ring (requiring cmake).
Eventually I expect the ecosystem should pivot to
https://github.com/ctz/graviola/tree/main/rustls-graviola as it
stabilises (it has a very simply build step and license), but for now
let's try not have a headache of juggling two crypto libs.
I also noticed that tonic will just fail with tls without a default
provider, so I added some defensive code for that.
The forever ongoing effort of juggling multiple versions of rustls :3
now with new crypto library aws-lc.
Because of dependencies, it is currently impossible to not have both
ring and aws-lc in the dep tree, therefore our only options are not
updating rustls or having both crypto backends enabled...
According to benchmarks run by the rustls maintainer, aws-lc is faster
than ring in some cases too <https://jbp.io/graviola/>, so it's not
without its upsides,
- Add support for splitting async postgres_backend into read and write halfes.
Safekeeper needs this for bidirectional streams. To this end, encapsulate
reading-writing postgres messages to framed.rs with split support without any
additional changes (relying on BufRead for reading and BytesMut out buffer for
writing).
- Use async postgres_backend throughout safekeeper (and in proxy auth link
part).
- In both safekeeper COPY streams, do read-write from the same thread/task with
select! for easier error handling.
- Tidy up finishing CopyBoth streams in safekeeper sending and receiving WAL
-- join split parts back catching errors from them before returning.
Initially I hoped to do that read-write without split at all, through polling
IO:
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/3522
However that turned out to be more complicated than I initially expected
due to 1) borrow checking and 2) anon Future types. 1) required Rc<Refcell<...>>
which is Send construct just to satisfy the checker; 2) can be workaround with
transmute. But this is so messy that I decided to leave split.
