RE: ssl connections with psql

> For those reading this and assuming that using SSL is always a good thing,
> SSL data connections are up to 100 times slower, as all of the data has
> to be encrypted and decrypted by the server and the client. Running SSL
> connections to the same server you're hosting the web pages on would be
> a fairly interesting way of shooting yourself in the foot, but not useful
> for much else.
I'm not assuming SSL is always a good thing, but sometimes security is more
important than speed, and in this case SSL does excatly what it should :o)