Connect to SSL database

[chrisdl]

Hi!

I'm having an issue trying to connect o an SSL enabled postgres database, which does not live locally.

FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "<IP>", user "<UERNAME>", database "<DBNAME>", SSL off

I've tried adding the ?ssl=true to the connection string, which is what I needed to do for my API to talk to the database, but (1) I don't know where to do that on the "standard" connection tab and (2) if I do it using the "Connect URL" tab it complains about the sslmode having an invalid value of true.

Great product!

[willvincent]

Interesting.. I don't have an ssl enabled server to test against at the moment, but if I try appending the ssl=true param to the end of the connect string, I get the sort of message I expect.

[chrisdl]

I think this may be a heroku specific issue. but I tried it with bdash (https://www.bdash.io/) just to make sure I wasn't eating crazy pills, and I could connect to it just fine.

The reason I tried bdash was because I ran into this: https://github.com/bdash-app/bdash/issues/7 which led me to this: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/connecting-to-heroku-postgres-databases-from-outside-of-heroku#ssl

I would like to keep using postbird.

appending ?sslmode=require seems to not even register with postbird. (same pg_hba.conf error message)

[osmuse]

I am having the same issue. How do you specify SSL in the standard connection tab?

[Paxa]

What OS do you use?

On MacOS postbird will use https://github.com/brianc/node-pg-native and on Linux with Windows https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres (I can only many static build of libpq for mac)

By experimenting I found that node-pg-native needs ?ssl= be something like disable, allow, prefer (default), require, verify-ca, verify-full But node-postgres will accept ?ssl=1 or ?ssl=true, otherwise false (default is false)

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Heroku URL (via heroku login) will be with ?ssl=verify-full, for now you may open inspector by View -> Toggle Developer Tools, try connect to heroku db, and you see log message like

connecting to postgres://xxx:[email protected]:5432/xxxx?ssl=verify-full

Change ssl=verify-full to ssl=1 and try to connect via URL form

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For now there is no way to specify ssl via normal form, only with "Connect URL"

This is defiantly a bug, will try to fix it

[chrisdl]

i'm on macOS. I was trying to use Connect URL with ?ssl=require or ?sslmode=require but neither of those seemed to work. verify-full showed the pg_hba.conf error and the ssl=1 showed "invalid value true"

[db1359]

How do I fix this?

[Paxa]

Can you please try with new version? I made small improvements for enabling ssl

[db1359]

I tired it. I tried many things same result. But for some reason I only see one db now instead of five.

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Can you please try with new version? I made small improvements for enabling ssl

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[chrisdl]

version 0.8.2
ssl=true          # invalid sslmode
ssl=1               # no pg_hba.conf
ssl=require     # pg_hba
ssl=verify-full # pg_hba

Is there some other configuration I should try?

[Paxa]

Can you try with this package? https://postbird.paxa.kuber.host/2019_06_16.13_11-disable-libpq-4bc4376 I disabled libpq, may be it work

[chrisdl]

@Paxa with the version provided in https://github.com/Paxa/postbird/issues/43#issuecomment-502447876 the ssl=true at the end of the connection string worked!

[thiagofasano]

I have the same error =( connection Digital Ocean error: SSL off.

[chrisdl]

@thiagofasano you could rock it cutting edge style and run the package from https://github.com/Paxa/postbird/issues/43#issuecomment-502447876

@Paxa I feel like this issue is actually resolved now, or do you want to wait for it to get released?

[thiagofasano]

@chrisdl not work.. ssl=true

[adsteel]

Per this suggestion here, I found that appending ?ssl=verify-full to the connection url works for me.

[stevennyman]

The latest development artifacts seem to have this problem fixed (https://postbird.paxa.kuber.host/2020_01_19.16_38-master-1020bfa - link from near the bottom of the readme).

[btd1337]

The problem in connect via URL is don't save the connection.

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Heroku message

SSL

Applications outside of the Heroku network must support and enable SSL to connect to a Heroku Postgres database. Most clients connect over SSL by default, but sometimes it’s necessary to add the sslmode=require query parameter to your database URL before connecting.

Be sure to append the sslmode=require parameter to your database’s URL from code, rather than by editing the value of your DATABASE_URL config var directly. Various automated events (such as a failover) can change the value of the config var, which overwrites any edits you make.

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Is any way to connect in standard mode adding ssl?

[chibuezedev]

for postbird, appending ?ssl=true to the connection url solved my own problem.