Re: SSL support in PG 7.4 - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Barry Lind
Subject Re: SSL support in PG 7.4
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Msg-id 3F327D4C.4030806@xythos.com
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In response to Re: SSL support in PG 7.4  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom,

Thanks for the explaination.

--Barry


Tom Lane wrote:
> Barry Lind <blind@xythos.com> writes:
>
>>In general that may be true.  And I didn't into this very much at the
>>time I did my initial v3 protocol work.  But in glancing at the code
>>just now, it needs to at least correctly handle a v3 style error
>>response from an ssl handshake request, no?
>
>
> Actually not.  Any modern postmaster will give you either 'Y' or 'N'
> back for an SSL request, whether it's compiled with SSL support or not.
> An 'E' response is only possible from postmasters that predate the
> introduction of SSL support ... and so it'll be V2 format for sure.
> (I'm not sure that you really care what follows 'E' in this case,
> anyway.  You can just drop the connection and try again without SSL.)
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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