Re: Question regarding SSL code in backend and frontend

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Question regarding SSL code in backend and frontend
Date: 2012-04-06 16:43:31
Message-ID: 6681.1333730611@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> True. I guess I was just assuming that JDBC (and npgsql i think?) were
> using TLS - I would assume that to be the default in both Java and
> .NET. We'd have to check that before making a change of course - and
> I'm not convinced we need to make the change. But if we're making a
> change to align those two with each other, that's the direction the
> change should be in.

Agreed, but should we align them? IIUC, changing the server would cause
it to reject connections from old non-TLS-aware clients. Seems like
that isn't a particularly good idea.

regards, tom lane

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