Re: Is there any performance penalty using --with-ssl?

Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> writes:
> I am preparing the update of the FreeBSD port of PostgreSQL with the 
> upcoming 7.2, and I'm just wondering: is there any performance penalty 
> intoduced by including --with-ssl in the default configure args?

Failure to build/run if SSL libraries are not available?

AFAIK there is no run-time penalty, especially not if the server is
started without the enable-ssl switch.  But there had better be an
SSL library to link with.
        regards, tom lane