Re: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> The biggest headache I find with using postgres is that various GPL
> licenced programs have trouble directly shipping postgresql support
> because of our use of OpenSSL. Each and every one of those program
> needs to add an exception to their licence for distributors to
> distribute postgresql support.

They could distribute a non-ssl-enabled version, *if* they really need 
to include libpq in the package, or advise to to replace it with the 
common version if ssl is required. I bet >99 % of pgsql connections are 
not encrypted anyway.

Regards,
Andreas