"Jason" <pg(at)newhonest(dot)com> writes:
> So what have I done wrong??
> I turned ssl = on in postgresql.conf, and restart postgresql. It just
> failed.
No error message? If so, look again (or more likely, look to see why
your start script is routing the postmaster's complaint to /dev/null).
My private bet is that you haven't set up the key/certificate files
needed by SSL, but there's not much use in guessing about it. First
thing you need is to be able to say something more concrete than "it
just failed".
regards, tom lane