Hi, On 2024-09-10 13:33:36 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 12:59 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > I still think that we'd be better off to just return an error to the client > > in > > postmaster, rather than deal with this dead-end children mess. That was > > perhaps justified at some point, but now it seems to add way more complexity > > than it's worth. And it's absurdly expensive to fork to return an error. Way > > more expensive than just having postmaster send an error and close the > > socket. > > The tricky case is the one where the client write() -- or SSL_write() -- > blocks.
Yea, SSL definitely does make it harder. But it's not exactly rocket science to do non-blocking SSL connection establishment. After all, we do manage to do so in libpq... Greetings, Andres Freund
