Re: Allow ssl_renegotiation_limit in PG 9.5 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Allow ssl_renegotiation_limit in PG 9.5
Date
Msg-id B76A1598-A342-41FE-800D-08392A4080AF@anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Allow ssl_renegotiation_limit in PG 9.5  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Allow ssl_renegotiation_limit in PG 9.5  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On October 17, 2015 4:18:50 PM GMT+02:00, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> wrote:
>On 17 October 2015 at 14:39, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
>> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>> > Having to backpatch a new parameter to all supported versions seems
>far
>> > more invasive than adding a guc that can only be set to one value.
>>
>> Indeed.  It is completely stupid to do this in any other way except
>> by reinstating ssl_renegotiation_limit as an ordinary GUC variable
>> whose min and max are both zero.
>>
>
>Agreed, my suggestion requires we can set that GUC, but we can set
>not-in-file also.
>
>
>> Quite aside from the implementation effort of inventing some
>> single-purpose kluge to do it another way, that solution would also
>> cover the complaints we're doubtless gonna get that "SET
>> ssl_renegotiation_limit = 0" doesn't work anymore.
>>
>
>Agreed, single purpose kluge is a bad thing.
>
>Rough patch for the extensible, backpatchable, non-invasive proposal
>attached.

This just doesn't make any sense. This way npgsql setting that flag can't be released before a new set of backbranch
releasesare in widespread use. Otherwise it'll just error out in all those, not just in 9.5 as it's now the case. It
breakscompatibility with all unsupported versions of postgres because those will never learn to ignore this driver
argument.Without any need. 
 

Ffs all were talking about is continuing to accept a guc in 9.5+, which had been accepted for 10+years. 

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