Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes:
> 2010/2/24 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> Also, the coding seems a bit confused about whether the
>> ssl_renegotiation_limit GUC exists when USE_SSL isn't set.  I think we
>> have a project policy about whether GUCs should still exist when the
>> underlying support isn't compiled, but I forget what it is :-(.

> I personally find it highly annoying when a GUC goes away, so I'm all
> for always having them there. And I thought that was our policy for
> new ones, but I can't find a reference to it...

I see that ssl_ciphers is made to go away when USE_SSL isn't set,
so the most consistent thing in the near term would be to do the same.
Revisiting the whole issue seems like not material for back-patching.

>> Also the xreflabel for the variable in the docs isn't consistent,

> You mean add _limit to it, right?

Right.

>> SUSET seems less surprising to me.  I agree that it's hard to make
>> a concrete case for a user doing anything terribly bad with it,
>> but on the other hand is there much value in letting it be USERSET?

> The use case would be for example npgsql (or npgsql clients) being
> able to disable it from the client side, because they know they can't
> deal with it. Even in the case that the server doesn't know that.

Fair enough, USERSET it is then.

                        regards, tom lane

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