--On Thursday, January 03, 2002 23:03:11 -0500 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
wrote:
> Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> writes:
>> I am preparing the update of the FreeBSD port of PostgreSQL with the
>> upcoming 7.2, and I'm just wondering: is there any performance penalty
>> intoduced by including --with-ssl in the default configure args?
>
> Failure to build/run if SSL libraries are not available?
The main problem, of course, but this is can be handled in the port.
> AFAIK there is no run-time penalty, especially not if the server is
> started without the enable-ssl switch. But there had better be an
> SSL library to link with.
True. Thanks for the input.
Cheers,
Palle