Re: SSL key with passphrase

On 13 September 2011 15:17, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> writes:
>> There appears to be a problem with starting Postgres if the SSL key
>> has a passphrase on it.
>
> It's documented that that's unsupported.  Given the number of ways to
> start a postmaster, and the fact that many of them are noninteractive,
> I don't think it's very productive for us to worry about it.

I've managed to get pg_ctl to accept the passphrase with the -w
option. Works fine like that. Since that works, perhaps the page
referring to SSL could mention this.

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