> > Yet when I try to connect with old client applications using SSL I get > > the following error reported in the server log: > > "could not accept SSL connection: peer did not return a certificate" > Are you attempting to use SSL certificates for client authentication? It > sounds like you have a root.crt in your PGDATA directory, but your clients > are not setup to provide a certificate upon connection and thus the > server is denying access. Hi Jeff, you are spot on, Thanks. I just set up the new server for SSL as the old 7.4.x server was. For some reason, with a root.crt present, 7.4.x distributions do not enforce receiving a client certificate so I never got this problem before. Thanks again regards Donald Fraser.