Re: Is there any performance penalty using --with-ssl?

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> writes:
> > I am preparing the update of the FreeBSD port of PostgreSQL with the
> > upcoming 7.2, and I'm just wondering: is there any performance penalty
> > intoduced by including --with-ssl in the default configure args?
>
> Failure to build/run if SSL libraries are not available?
>
> AFAIK there is no run-time penalty, especially not if the server is
> started without the enable-ssl switch.  But there had better be an
> SSL library to link with.

SSL libraries are default with a FreeBSD install, as its required by SSH
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