On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On 2015-06-24 15:41:22 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 6/24/15 3:13 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>> > Meh. The relevant branches already exist, as you can disable it today.
>> >
>> > We could also just change the default in the back branches.
>>
>> One more argument for leaving everything alone. If users don't like it,
>> they can turn it off themselves.
>
> Because it's so obvious to get there from "SSL error: unexpected
> message", "SSL error: bad write retry" or "SSL error: unexpected record"
> to disabling renegotiation. Right? Search the archives and you'll find
> plenty of those, mostly in relation to streaming rep. It took -hackers
> years to figure out what causes those, how are normal users supposed to
> a) correlate such errors with renegotiation b) evaluate what do about
> it?
We could document the issues, create release-note entries suggesting a
configuration change, and/or blog about it.
I don't accept the argument that there are not ways to tell users
about things they might want to do.
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