Mikkel Høgh wrote:
> On 14/10/2008, at 20.23, Daniel Verite wrote:
>> What I've noticed on drupal-6.4 with Ubuntu 8.04 is that the default
>> postgresql.conf has:
>> ssl=true
>> and since drupal doesn't allow connecting to pgsql with unix socket
>> paths [1], what you get by default is probably TCP + SSL encryption.
>> A crude test that just connects and disconnect to a local pg server
>> appears to me to be 18 times faster when SSL is off.
>> So you might want to check if setting ssl to false makes a difference
>> for your test.
>
> Ouch, there's a gotcha. So enabling SSL gives you SSL connections by
> default, even for localhost? That’s… unexpected.
Yes. To avoid it, specify "hostnossl" in the pg_hba.conf file.That will
refuse all SSL connections.
//Magnus