Re: issues connecting to RDS from psql 9.2 v 14.2

"Capobianco, Tony" <Tony(dot)Capobianco(at)bcbsma(dot)com> writes:
> Our RHEL 7.9 installation comes with PostgreSQL 9.2 installed which I know has been desupported. We installed 14.2 in a non-default location and observe this unusual behavior:
> [postgres(at)servername ~]$ psql -h RDS-instance.rds.amazonaws.com -p 5432 -d dbname -U root
> Password for user root:
> psql (9.2.24, server 12.8)
> WARNING: psql version 9.2, server version 12.0.
> Some psql features might not work.
> SSL connection (cipher: cipher text here, bits: 256)
> Type "help" for help.

> daldb=> \q
> [postgres@ servername ~]$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/u01/apps/postgres/postgresql-14.2/pg14.2/usr/local/pgsql/lib
> [postgres@ servername ~]$ /u01/apps/postgres/postgresql-14.2/pg14.2/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -h RDS-instance.rds.amazonaws.com -p 5432 -d dbname -U root
> psql: error: connection to server at " RDS-instance.rds.amazonaws.com " (10.33.131.184), port 5432 failed: FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "10.11.12.13", user "root", database "dbname", SSL off
> [postgres@ servername ~]$

> Any ideas of why I'm encountering this issue?

Looks like you neglected to build psql with OpenSSL support,
and the server is insisting on having an SSL connection.

regards, tom lane