Re: SSL key with passphrase

From: Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SSL key with passphrase
Date: 2011-09-13 14:28:25
Message-ID: CAA-aLv4GFU=G0F9xX0zb_9onwCy9Gt55bBmn1KnBY9estMRMtQ@mail.gmail.com
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On 13 September 2011 15:17, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> writes:
>> There appears to be a problem with starting Postgres if the SSL key
>> has a passphrase on it.
>
> It's documented that that's unsupported.  Given the number of ways to
> start a postmaster, and the fact that many of them are noninteractive,
> I don't think it's very productive for us to worry about it.

For reference, could you point me to the page which states this lack
of support? All I could find was a mention that in order to start the
service automatically, you would need to remove the passphrase.

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