To: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
From: Martin Goodson <kaemaril@googlemail.com>
Subject: SSL - automatic entry of certificate passphrase in PostgreSQL 10?
Message-ID: <5DEA56C4.7010408@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 13:25:24 +0000
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Hello.

Apologies if this is an easy one, I've been looking around but clearly 
my google-fu may be weak :)

I've recently been asked to enable ssl support on one of our PostgreSQL 
10 databases, which I've done. However, the certificate I was given 
appears to have been generated using a passphrase, and now during server 
start I'm being prompted (as expected) for that passphrase.

I'm concerned that this is going to impact the automatic (re)start of 
the database after server shutdowns, crashes etc. I understand that 
there is functionality to support this in PostgreSQL 11 with the 
ssl_passphrase_command parameter, but I was wondering if there's a way 
to emulate this in PostgreSQL 10 or any kind of workaround?

Or am I stuck with either requesting a new certificate without the 
passphrase or going to PostgreSQL 11?

For information, it's a PostgreSQL 10.5 cluster hosted on a VM running 
RHEL 7.6.

Many thanks!

-- 
Martin Goodson

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While greater love lies further deep.
This dream must end, the world must know,
We all depend on the beast below.