On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 9:37 AM Laura Smith <n5d9xq3ti233xiyif2vp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The point I am making is that pg_basebackup is connecting without encryption and I want to know how to tell it to use encryption. The docs are silent on the subject.
It is a client application that talks libpq. All of them understand a common set of environment variables:
Many of those can also be supplied as part of the connection string. These include SSL mode control.
The question I would ask is whether psql connects by default using ssl in the same basic configuration. If so, then the inconsistency amounts to pg_basebackup having an insecure default connection method while psql has a secure one.
David J.
