Re: SSL key with passphrase

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 02:40:15AM +0100, Thom Brown wrote:
> On 13 September 2011 15:17, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> writes:
> >> There appears to be a problem with starting Postgres if the SSL key
> >> has a passphrase on it.
> >
> > It's documented that that's unsupported.  Given the number of ways to
> > start a postmaster, and the fact that many of them are noninteractive,
> > I don't think it's very productive for us to worry about it.
>
> I've managed to get pg_ctl to accept the passphrase with the -w
> option. Works fine like that. Since that works, perhaps the page
> referring to SSL could mention this.

I have added a documention mention as you suggested for PG 9.3 in the
'-w' option section.

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