[pgpool-hackers: 275] Re: transaction pooling mode?

[Tatsuo Ishii]

>> Another interesting question is SSL support. I heard that pgbouncer
>> does not support SSL (in at least transaction mode). I'm not sure if
>> it is just because of lacking of implementaion in pgbouncer, but I can
>> guess it will be very hard to implement SSL with transacton mode
>> because OpenSSL is designed in session based manner.
> 
> pgbouncer does not support ssl which is a huge pain. They suggest you
> use stunnel which doesn't scale at all.

I may be wrong. If pgpool were to support transaction mode, it need to
handle multiple connections(sessions) from clients at the same time
anyway. In summary, pgpool might be able to support transaction mode
*and* SSL.
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Tatsuo Ishii
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