Re: [BUGS] More SSL questions..

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> Sent: 07 January 2005 22:36
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Bruce Momjian; Magnus Hagander;
> pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org; Matthew T. O'Connor;
> Andrew Dunstan; T.J.
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [BUGS] More SSL questions..
>
> So .cfg wouldn't allow the file to be auto-opened?  Hardly worth it
> then.  Seems like it's .txt or nothing.

Yup :-(

> If opening with notepad is an actively bad idea (for instance
> because it
> will auto-wrap lines in the file) then I'd agree we don't want .txt.
> But if notepad is a usable tool, I don't think that making it
> harder for
> people to open the files is any improvement.  If they don't understand
> the format of the files then they will get themselves in
> trouble anyway.

I just checked in my clean test VM, and notepad doesn't seem to wrap by
default (even when it does, it's only a visual thing - it doesn't alter
the file). Notepad is a festering pile of garbage, but it is vaguely
useable :-)

Regards, Dave.