Free heroku database does not enable SSL validation

[mithi]

Because node-postgres enables SSL validation by default while free heroku hosting doesn’t provide it automatically, you need to turn it off

• https://node-postgres.com/announcements#2020-02-25
• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/ssl

heroku config:set PGSSLMODE=no-verify

IMPORTANT: This is bad practice if you have sensitive data on your database.
We don't have sensitive data on our database.