Received: from sss.sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [209.114.166.2] (may be forged)) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA37656 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 12:41:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) Received: from sss.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.sss.pgh.pa.us (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA01745; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 12:40:30 -0400 (EDT) To: Magnus Hagander cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: SSL patch In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:10:25 +0200 <215896B6B5E1CF11BC5600805FFEA82101F70B70@sirius.edu.sollentuna.se> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 12:40:30 -0400 Message-ID: <1743.932834430@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane Magnus Hagander writes: > As it is right now, it should work in all combinations except a 6.6 client > compiled with SSL support connecting to a pre-6.6 server. It already > falls-back if the server is 6.6 (without SSL support). And the 6.6 client > compiled without SSL works. Actually, it shouldn't matter whether the server is 6.6-without-SSL or pre-6.6. At least in the way I envisioned it, they'd act the same. > There is not yet a way in the client to specify that SSL connection is > required (it can be specified on the server). I'm planning to put that in, > but I thought it would be good to get the "base code" approved first - which > proved to be a good thing :-) > I'll see if I can wrap something up before I leave on vacation (leaving > pretty soon, be gone about a week). Not sure I'll make it, though. Should I > do this as a patch against what I have now, or keep sending in "the one big > patch"? I don't think anyone has applied your patch yet, so why don't you just resubmit the whole thing after cleaning up the loose ends. regards, tom lane