Re: Serverside SNI support in libpq

> On 3 Dec 2025, at 22:27, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2025 at 17:57, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
>>> I really want to make it possible for anyone who don't want SNI to keep using
>>> postgresql.conf and get the exact behavior they've always had. Do you agree
>>> with that design goal?
>>
>> Yeah, that's fair.
>
> What if we make it so that if a pg_hosts.conf file exists, then the
> ssl_cert_file/ssl_key_file configs are ignored? And by default initdb
> would not create a file (or it would, but with the same default
> settings that we have now).

Maybe. I'm not a big fan of magic-file-exist configurations but.. I'm trying
out a few different options to see which seems the most reasonable, and this is
for one of them.

> Basically it would be:
> 1. If the file does not exist, use the "off" behaviour
> 2. If the file exists, use the "strict" behaviour

It will really be "strict" *or* "default" based on whether or not '*' is set as
a wildcard hostname (which can be argued is just a version of strict).

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Daniel Gustafsson