> Charles Hornberger wrote: >> Just a quick follow-up to share one (!) data point, which looks to me >> like it indicates that SSL encryption/decryption is pretty expensive on >> one of our Sun Ultra 5 boxes. The following query ("select * from wp") >> generates ~270K of output. When executed via a psql client that's >> connected over a non-encrypted link, it takes 0.7 seconds; over an >> encrypted link, it takes more than 10 times that long.
I suspect most of this is from the ridiculously small renegotiation interval we put into 7.3. Try increasing RENEGOTIATION_LIMIT in src/backend/libpq/be-secure.c (we've bumped it to 512 meg for 7.4). regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match