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Re: Unfriendly handling of pg_hba SSL options with SSL off

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-04-25T21:10:38Z
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On mån, 2011-04-25 at 15:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, it's not just to be "helpful", it's to close off code paths that
> are never going to be sufficiently well-tested to not have bizarre
> failure modes.  That helps both developers (who don't have to worry
> about testing/fixing such code paths) and users (who won't have to
> deal with the bizarre failure modes). 

That's of course another good reason.