Applied.  Depending on how we handle this the error text might need to
change but odds are we will still need to report something related to
sslmode/sslverify when root.crt is missing.

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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On Friday 10 April 2009 08:39:33 Martin Pitt wrote:
> > > Tom Lane [2009-04-10  1:15 -0400]:
> > > > Martin Pitt <mp...@debian.org> writesyuqhom#3:
> > > > > The test suite detected one regression in libpq, though: Setting
> > > > > $PGHOST now complains about a missing root.crt, although this is only
> > > > > relevant on the server side (or did I misunderstood this?)
> > > >
> > > > No, that's a progression: the client wants to validate the server's
> > > > cert, too.
> > >
> > > Indeed it is nice to see this feature (great to prevent spoofing), but
> > > if I don't have a ~/.postgresql/root.crt at all, it shouldn't
> > > certainly break completely? (which it does now).
> > 
> > I assume the server has the snakeoil certificate installed?  In that case, 
> > it 
> > is correct that the client refuses to proceed, although the exact manner of 
> > breaking could perhaps be improved.
> 
> I have developed a patch to more clearly explain the problem with a
> missing client root.crt file:
> 
>       $ PGSSLVERIFY=cn sql -h localhost test
>       psql: root certificate file "/u/postgres/.postgresql/root.crt" does not 
> exist
>       Either supply the file or set sslverify to "none" to disable server 
> certificate verification.
> 
>       $ PGSSLVERIFY=none sql -h localhost test
>       psql (8.4beta1)
>       SSL connection (cipher: DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, bits: 256)
>       Type "help" for help.
> 
> I had to add a second error message line;  I didn't see us doing a
> second line anywhere else in libpq, but it seemed to be the only
> solution.  Should I use three lines?
> 
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