[Pgpool-general] SSL support

[Kashyap Jani]

Hi,
    I would like to know if there are any plans of supporting SSL in 
near future ?

Regards,
Kashyap Jani




Tatsuo Ishii wrote:

>>On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:14:27PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
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>>>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.)
>>    
>>
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>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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