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

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

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From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Palle Girgensohn" <girgen@partitur.se>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-01-04T04:25:23Z
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> 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.

Well, FreeBSD has come with OpenSSL in the base system by default for a long
time now.

What about the memory size overhead it adds to every postgres process?

Chris