From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200209240026.g8O0Qph12753@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: SSL documentation
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To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:26:51 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Bear Giles <bgiles@coyotesong.com>, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > Basically, SSL thing is very unclear to me and looks like a big mess.  I
> > don't know if that is because I don't understand it, or if it is really
> > a mess that some of his stuff is in, some isn't.  To me it seems his
> > scripts tied into use the new SSL features, but no one has been able to
> > comment on that.
> 
> Not only that, but currently what used to work is broken.  Now you need
> certificates on the client side, which isn't documented anywhere.  If we
> don't get documentation we should revert the patches.

Yep, I am ready to rip, but I need someone who understands SSL to do it
for me because I don't understand which parts need to be ripped and
which parts are good.

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