| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Ants Aasma <ants(dot)aasma(at)eesti(dot)ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: WIP: Data at rest encryption |
| Date: | 2017-06-15 23:44:43 |
| Message-ID: | 20170615234443.GE11450@momjian.us |
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On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 07:27:55PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> I expect the same would happen with the shell-command approach suggested
> up-thread and the prompt-on-stdin approach too, they aren't great but I
> expect users would still use the feature. As Robert and I have
> mentioned, there is a good bit of value to having this feature simply
> because it avoids the need to get someone with root privileges to set up
> an encrypted volume and I don't think having to use a shell command or
> providing the password on stdin at startup really changes that very
> much.
Understood, but now you are promoting a feature with an admittedly-poor
API, duplication of an OS feature, and perhaps an invasive change to the
code. Those are high hurdles.
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