Andrew M. writes:
> To answer my own question I included the -l flag:
>
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -l -i -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>
> No errors were reported, which I guess there would be if:
>
> 1. postgreSQL had not ben built with SSL support? or
> 2. the certificate has not been properly setup?
You could also use openssl's utilities to diagnose the SSL part of the
connection. For example:
$ openssl s_client -host localhost -port <port>
will show you details about the authentication and encryption in use.
HTH
Andreas