Re: Any advantage of using SSL with a certificate of authority?

1. A self-signed certificate can be issued by anybody, there is no way of authenticating the issuer.
2. Distributing self-signed certificates becomes a pain - if signed by a CA, its easy to lodge your public key where everybody can find it, and knows where to look for it.
3. Maintenance becomes a problem

while that's all true for public https or whatever, none of this applies to a point to point connection like libpq -> postmaster.

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