Re: Thoughts on a "global" client configuration?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on a "global" client configuration?
Date: 2025-10-15 19:07:58
Message-ID: a4796521-1806-454e-ab5d-3035a31aa677@eisentraut.org
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On 08.10.25 16:39, Robert Haas wrote:
> To be honest, I think part of the problem here has to do with our
> choice of syntax. For HTTP, you just change the URL from http to https
> and it's one extra character. Decorating every connection string with
> sslmode=none (if the default is verify-full and you're running on a
> trusted network) or sslmode=verify-full (if the default is none and
> you're not running on a trusted network) feels bad, especially if you
> have to type those connection strings by hand with any frequency.

But even a browser has a default setting for which variant to use when
you type in a domain name without a scheme. And in most cases, that
default was changed at some point during the last 20 years.

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