Difference between host, hostssl and hostnossl connection type - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Dhirendra Singh
Subject Difference between host, hostssl and hostnossl connection type
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Msg-id CAEyh4sYOTAZiSBMXCocd-poP-PrCtp_emDsx2GWSPUbzapHBGg@mail.gmail.com
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Hi All,
I am using postgres version 14.
I would like to know what is the difference between host, hostssl and hostnossl connection type.
According to documentation,
host => This record matches connection attempts made using TCP/IP. host records match SSL or non-SSL connection attempts as well as GSSAPI encrypted or non-GSSAPI encrypted connection
attempts.
hostssl => This record matches connection attempts made using TCP/IP, but only when the connection is made with SSL encryption.
hostnossl => This record type has the opposite behavior of hostssl; it only matches connection attempts made over TCP/IP that do not use SSL.

I provided cert authentication method for host type connection. but i get error and postgres does not come up. Following is the error message i get.
LOG: cert authentication is only supported on hostssl connections.

Thanks,
Dhirendra.


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