By skipping SSLRequest, you can eliminate one round-trip when establishing a TLS connection. It is also more friendly to generic TLS proxies that don't understand the PostgreSQL protocol. This is disabled by default in libpq, because the direct TLS handshake will fail with old server versions. It can be enabled with the sslnegotation=direct option. It will still fall back to the negotiated TLS handshake if the server rejects the direct attempt, either because it is an older version or the server doesn't support TLS at all, but the fallback can be disabled with the sslnegotiation=requiredirect option. Author: Greg Stark, Heikki Linnakangas Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent, Jacob Champion
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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