On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:42:56AM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> However, if this is the expected behavior, the documentation at https://
> www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-ssl.html should be updated to
> make this more clear. It should be made clear that the existence of the
> file ~/.postgresql/root.crt changes the behavior of sslmode=require and
> sslmode=prefer.
>
>
>
> Agreed. It's basically backwards compatibility with something that was badly
> documented in the first place :) That's not a particularly strong argument for
> the way it is. Clarifying the documentation would definitely be a good
> improvement.
Does this have to remain backward-compatible forever?
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