Jeff Frost <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Interestingly, I receive the same error when I disable SSL on the server: If SSL is disabled then hostssl lines in pg_hba.conf effectively become no-ops --- they can never be matched since no incoming connection will be SSL-ified. So that part of it sounds reasonable to me. (Perhaps we could log some kind of complaint in this case, though the easy places to put in such a message would generate an unacceptably large number of repetitions of the message :-() > But, when I put the trust line back with hostssl, I do not get connected as > per her original indication. Please be clearer about what you mean here --- Jeanna *was* able to connect in this case, if I'm not totally confused. regards, tom lane