Re: SSL support in PG 7.4

Tom,

Thanks for the explaination.

--Barry

Tom Lane wrote:
> Barry Lind <blind(at)xythos(dot)com> writes:
>
>>In general that may be true. And I didn't into this very much at the
>>time I did my initial v3 protocol work. But in glancing at the code
>>just now, it needs to at least correctly handle a v3 style error
>>response from an ssl handshake request, no?
>
>
> Actually not. Any modern postmaster will give you either 'Y' or 'N'
> back for an SSL request, whether it's compiled with SSL support or not.
> An 'E' response is only possible from postmasters that predate the
> introduction of SSL support ... and so it'll be V2 format for sure.
> (I'm not sure that you really care what follows 'E' in this case,
> anyway. You can just drop the connection and try again without SSL.)
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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