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

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-01-04T04:03:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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.

			regards, tom lane