Re: Removing SSL renegotiation (Was: Should we back-patch SSL renegotiation fixes?) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2015-06-26 15:36:53 -0400, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> 
> > On 2015-06-24 16:41:48 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > I, by now, have come to a different conclusion. I think it's time to
> > > entirely drop the renegotiation support.
> >
> > I think by now we essentially concluded that we should do that. What I'm
> > not sure yet is how: Do we want to rip it out in master and just change
> > the default in the backbranches, or do we want to rip it out in all
> > branches and leave a faux guc in place in the back branches. I vote for
> > the latter, but would be ok with both variants.
> >
> >
> ​3. ​Change the "default" and make the guc impotent - in the back
> branches.  Its minimally invasive and accomplishes the same user-facing
> goal as "ripping it out".

What would be the point of that? The code is pretty localized, so
leaving it in, but unreachable, seems to have no benefits.