Question

How to use ${_self.CA_CERT} in when accessing Postgres DB from Nodejs app?

Goal is to avoid Error: self signed certificate in certificate chain or disabling it by setting Node env.

I do not think copying content from ${_self.CA_CERT} env to file and uploading it to repository and referring it as file approach sounds safe. There is support page describing saving it using script and referring it at runtime, I tried it like

DATABASE_URL=${self.DATABASE_URL}&sslrootcert=/workspace/ca_cert.cert

even tried setting NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS

I am using Postgraphile as middleware in my case, trying to connect to dev database.

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kaushalyap • February 1, 2023

I was able to fix this in Postgraphile by using Pool from pg

export const pool = new Pool({
    user: process.env.DB_USERNAME,
    host: process.env.DB_HOSTNAME,
    database: process.env.DATABASE,
    password: process.env.DB_PASSWORD,
    port: Number(process.env.DB_PORT),
    ssl: {
       rejectUnauthorized: true,
       ca: process.env.CA_CERT,
    },
})

and passing pool object postgraphile

const middleware = postgraphile(db, schemas, options)

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