As a security practice, the latest releases of the PostgreSQL databases use TLS encryption by default. At times, if the database is being accessed via the IP addresses, having failed to verify the secure connection established between Artifactory and Database, the server returns the below error.
YYYY-MM-DDT10:43:31.115Z [jfrt ] [ERROR] [8019426551caae4f] [c.z.h.p.HikariPool:593] [ocalhost-startStop-2] - HikariCP Main - Exception during pool initialization. [...] org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: The hostname xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx could not be verified by hostnameverifier PgjdbcHostnameVerifier.