Palle Girgensohn <girgen(at)partitur(dot)se> writes:
> I am preparing the update of the FreeBSD port of PostgreSQL with the
> upcoming 7.2, and I'm just wondering: is there any performance penalty
> intoduced by including --with-ssl in the default configure args?
Failure to build/run if SSL libraries are not available?
AFAIK there is no run-time penalty, especially not if the server is
started without the enable-ssl switch. But there had better be an
SSL library to link with.
regards, tom lane