On 13 September 2011 15:17, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes:
>> There appears to be a problem with starting Postgres if the SSL key
>> has a passphrase on it.
>
> It's documented that that's unsupported. Given the number of ways to
> start a postmaster, and the fact that many of them are noninteractive,
> I don't think it's very productive for us to worry about it.
I've managed to get pg_ctl to accept the passphrase with the -w
option. Works fine like that. Since that works, perhaps the page
referring to SSL could mention this.
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