Re: Thoughts on a "global" client configuration?

On 08.10.25 16:39, Robert Haas wrote:
> To be honest, I think part of the problem here has to do with our
> choice of syntax. For HTTP, you just change the URL from http to https
> and it's one extra character. Decorating every connection string with
> sslmode=none (if the default is verify-full and you're running on a
> trusted network) or sslmode=verify-full (if the default is none and
> you're not running on a trusted network) feels bad, especially if you
> have to type those connection strings by hand with any frequency.

But even a browser has a default setting for which variant to use when 
you type in a domain name without a scheme.  And in most cases, that 
default was changed at some point during the last 20 years.