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CockroachDB TIL: Volume 13

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This is my series of articles covering short "Today I learned" topics as I work with CockroachDB. Today, we're diagnosing cert issues, looking at client verification of server certificates differences in the cockroach and the psql clients, and checking the node and the CA certificate expiration programmatically. Previous articles Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume 6 Volume 7 Volume 8 Volume 9 Volume 10 Volume 11 Volume 12 Topics Topic 1: Diagnose certificate based authentication Topic 2: Differences between cockroach and psql clients for client verification of server certificates Topic 3: Capture the node and the CA certificate expiration programmatically Topic 4: Check the client certificate expiration Topic 1: Diagnose certificate based authentication I was using CockroachDB Serverless with a product called PolyScale.ai for an article I was writing and I've run into a strange issue with certificate-based authN. ...