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doc: Specify when ssl_prefer_server_ciphers was added

author Daniel Gustafsson <dgustafsson@postgresql.org>

Thu, 4 Jul 2024 09:38:37 +0000 (11:38 +0200)

committer Daniel Gustafsson <dgustafsson@postgresql.org>

Thu, 4 Jul 2024 09:38:37 +0000 (11:38 +0200)

The ssl_prefer_server_ciphers setting is quite important from a
security point of view, so simply stating that older versions
doesn't have it isn't very helpful. This adds the version when
the GUC was added to help readers.

Backpatch to all supported versions since this setting has been
around since 9.4.

Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5D7E0F5E-E620-4D54-8788-66D421AC76F0@yesql.se
Backpatch-through: v12

doc/src/sgml/config.sgml patch | blob | blame | history

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml

index 17d84bd321ac568b23671199a4eaca072ef55cba..f627a3e63cd5a7df2b1622f1b20e31831a07ecc3 100644 (file)

--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml

+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml

@@ -1443,11 +1443,11 @@ include_dir 'conf.d'

</para>

<para>

- Older PostgreSQL versions do not have this setting and always use the

- client's preferences. This setting is mainly for backward

- compatibility with those versions. Using the server's preferences is

- usually better because it is more likely that the server is appropriately