Ok, I think I've gotten this figured out now. I saw this comment in pqcomm.c, switched the ERROR logs to COMMERROR logs and it all works. I've attached a patch to be-secure.c that fixes all my problems. Hopefully this is the right fix.
--Nate
/*
* Careful: an elog() that tries to write to the client would
* cause recursion to here, leading to stack overflow and core
* dump! This message must go *only* to the postmaster log.
*/
sslpatch
Description: Binary data
---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
