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sslcert

This parameter specifies the file name of the client SSL certificate, replacing the default ~/.postgresql/postgresql.crt . This parameter is ignored if an SSL connection is not made.

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libpq 18.6
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Source environment fallback
PGSSLCERT
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NULL
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This parameter specifies the file name of the client SSL certificate, replacing the default ~/.postgresql/postgresql.crt . This parameter is ignored if an SSL connection is not made.
documented
true
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map[description:PGSSLCERT behaves the same as the sslcert connection parameter. name:PGSSLCERT source_url:/docs/18/libpq-envars.html]
keyword
sslcert
manual path
libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNECT-SSLCERT
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sslcert

Definition PG 18

sslcert

This parameter specifies the file name of the client SSL certificate, replacing the default ~/.postgresql/postgresql.crt. This parameter is ignored if an SSL connection is not made.

Environment fallback

VariableDocumented behavior
PGSSLCERTPGSSLCERT behaves the same as the sslcert connection parameter.

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The following environment variables can be used to select default connection parameter values, which will be used by PQconnectdb , PQsetdbLogin and PQsetdb if no value is directly specified by the calling code. These are useful to avoid hard-coding database connection information into simple client applications, for example., Service names can be defined in either a per-user service file or a system-wide file. If the same service name exists in both the user and the system file, the user file takes precedence. By default, the per-user service file is named ~/.pg_service.conf . On Microsoft Windows, it is named %APPDATA%\postgresql\.pg_service.conf (where %APPDATA% refers to the Application Data subdirectory in the user's profile). A different file name can be specified by setting the environment variable PGSERVICEFILE . The system-wide file is named pg_service.conf . By default it is sought in the etc directory of the PostgreSQL installation (use pg_config --sysconfdir to identify this directory precisely). Another directory, but not a different file name, can be specified by setting the environment variable PGSYSCONFDIR ., Connection parameters obtained from a service file are combined with parameters obtained from other sources. A service file setting overrides the corresponding environment variable, and in turn can be overridden by a value given directly in the connection string. For example, using the above service file, a connection string service=mydb port=5434 will use host somehost , port 5434 , user admin , and other parameters as set by environment variables or built-in defaults.

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