[Pgpool-general] SSL support

[Tatsuo Ishii]

> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:14:27PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > pgpool does not support SSL (yet). However if SSL request arrives,
> > pgpool returns error, which in turn applications fall back to non SSL
> > mode. You mean, pgpool does not work like this?
> 
> Is this automatic behaviour, or is it up to the application
> developer?  I'm at the IETF meeting just now, and had a conversation
> about the undesirability of automatic unsecued fallback for some
> applications just today: you really don't want (for example)
> financial transactions to pass unsecured across a possibly hostile
> net.  (I suspect such an arrangement with pgpool would be a bad use
> case anyway, but one never knows what people are going to do.)

I think this is what psql behaves. I don't know if this is implemented
in psql or libpq layer though.
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