Validation fails on Quay startup when Azure PostgreSQL db is used with SSL

apiVersion: quay.redhat.com/v1
kind: QuayRegistry
metadata: 
  name: lht-quay-registry
  namespace: lht-quay-registry
spec: 
  configBundleSecret: lht-quay-registry-config-bundle
  components: 
    - managed: false
      kind: clair
    - managed: false
      kind: postgres
    - managed: true
      kind: objectstorage
    - managed: true
      kind: redis
    - managed: true
      kind: horizontalpodautoscaler
    - managed: true
      kind: route
    - managed: false
      kind: mirror
    - managed: false
      kind: monitoring

-> lht-quay-registry-config-bundle secret
config.yaml: |
  ALLOW_PULLS_WITHOUT_STRICT_LOGGING: false
  AUTHENTICATION_TYPE: Database
  DEFAULT_TAG_EXPIRATION: 8w
  ENTERPRISE_LOGO_URL: /static/img/RH_Logo_Quay_Black_UX-horizontal.svg
  FEATURE_BUILD_SUPPORT: false
  FEATURE_DIRECT_LOGIN: true
  FEATURE_ANONYMOUS_ACCESS: false
  FEATURE_MAILING: false
  REGISTRY_TITLE: LHT
  REGISTRY_TITLE_SHORT: LHT
  TAG_EXPIRATION_OPTIONS: 
  - 2w
  - 4w
  - 8w
  - 16w
  TEAM_RESYNC_STALE_TIME: 60m
  TESTING: false
  DB_URI: "postgresql://<user>@<server>:<pw>@<server>.postgres.database.azure.com:5432/quay?sslmode=require"

-> oc get pods
NAME                                                    READY   STATUS             RESTARTS   AGE
lht-quay-registry-quay-app-upgrade-f68666497-hpgkt      0/1     CrashLoopBackOff   4          2m32s
lht-quay-registry-quay-config-editor-85654dc7d6-t6tp7   1/1     Running            0          2m41s
lht-quay-registry-quay-redis-64d7976bd4-xhnv4           1/1     Running            0          2m46s
quay-operator.v3.5.1-6d86c485c-tp6hz                    1/1     Running            0          19m


-> oc logs lht-quay-registry-quay-app-upgrade-f68666497-hpgkt
[...]
| Database               | Could not connect to database. Error: FATAL #28000 SSL connection is required. Please specify SSL options and retry. |     |
[...]

-> Created a script and filled in my DB connection data [2]
import psycopg2

# Update connection string information
host = "<server-name>"
dbname = "<database-name>"
user = "<admin-username>"
password = "<admin-password>"
sslmode = "require"

# Construct connection string
conn_string = "host={0} user={1} dbname={2} password={3} sslmode={4}".format(host, user, dbname, password, sslmode)
conn = psycopg2.connect(conn_string)
print("Connection established")

-> Execute the script inside the pod with "python db.py"
Connection established