Why Postgres needs better connection security defaults

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale at 25 Jun 2025, 14:44 UTC

In this post: why are Postgres connections with sslmode=require insecure? How does Neon ensure secure connections? And what needs to happen to make secure Postgres connections the norm? It’s common to see sslmode=require on the end of a Postgres connection string. Maybe your own...