Hello Rob,

With root.crt in ~/.postgresql, testing the jdbc connection from a
> tomcat server generates this failure (again either localhost or
> $(hostname))
> Blow out on db connection to jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/postgres;
> SSL error: PKIX path building failed:
> sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to
> find valid certification path to requested target
> org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: SSL error: PKIX path building failed:
> sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to
> find valid certification path to requested target
>

Java has its own certificate keystore, you would need to add your
certificate to it: https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/ssl-howto.html

Hope this helps.

-- 
Tiemen Ruiten
Infrastructure Engineer

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