Re: Is there any performance penalty using --with-ssl?

--On Thursday, January 03, 2002 23:03:11 -0500 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
wrote:

> 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?

The main problem, of course, but this is can be handled in the port.

> 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.

True. Thanks for the input.

Cheers,
Palle