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Re: BUG #1321: SSL error: sslv3 alert handshake failure

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
Cc: "T.J. Ferraro" <tjtoocool@phreaker.net>, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org, Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>
Date: 2004-11-16T20:33:49Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
> Sounds like a problem due to the backend in recent betas demanding
> a client certificate if $PGDATA/root.crt exists, but the client
> certificate doesn't exist in ~/.postgresql/postgresql.{crt,key}.

If that is the problem, it's still broken because the error message
is so unhelpful.  (I'm quite certain I tested that case last time
I touched the SSL code, and it said something reasonable then.)

			regards, tom lane