Re: controlling the location of server-side SSL files

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>>> [ reasons ]
>
>> I agree with these reasons.  We don't get charged $0.50 per GUC, so
>> there's no particular reason to contort things to have fewer of them.
>
> Well, there definitely is a distributed cost to each additional GUC.
> Peter's given what are probably adequate reasons to add several of them
> here, but that doesn't mean we should not ask the question whether each
> new GUC is really necessary.

No argument. I'm merely saying that I think the rationale for these
GUCs is solid enough to justify their existence.

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