Problems connecting Pentaho Kettle/Spoon to Heroku PostgreSQL using SSL

Question

I\'m trying to connect spoon to a Heroku PostgreSQL instance using the JDBC driver that came with Spoon. Heroku requires SSL for it\'s stand alone PostgreSQL instances, whic

Answer 1

The basic problem seems to be the SSL handshake. Excerpt from your error messages:

Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: 
Caused by: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

This is not a PostgreSQL specific problem, it's a pure SSL thing. Using these error messages you can find quite some help on this site. Skimming through them this answer looks promising to me and it might guide you into the right direction:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/6908991/947357