Re: cannot load server.crt

"Sahagian, David" <david(dot)sahagian(at)emc(dot)com> writes:
> We use our own CA implementation inside Java to generate a PEM-encoded certificate chain (server.crt) and key (server.key).

> The certificates are, as they should be, base-64 encoded and surrounded by the appropriate delimiters such as
> -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
> -----END CERTIFICATE-----

> They are also line-wrapped at 77 characters.

> But the line wrapping code can cause an extra newline char following the final base-64 encoded character of the cert or key, and before the -----END CERTIFICATE----- delimiter.

> When this happens, Postgres rejects the certificate.

That would be OpenSSL rejecting the cert; Postgres never touches such
files directly. I don't know whether there's an official spec about
the contents of cert files, but you'd have to take it up with the
OpenSSL folk if you want to lobby for a change in this behavior.

regards, tom lane