| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, 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: | 2017-06-16 15:41:17 |
| Message-ID: | 20170616154117.GL11450@momjian.us |
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On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 08:08:05PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 04:56:36PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > how few concerns about this feature's complexity / maintainability
> > impact have been raised.
>
> Yeah, I guess we will just have to wait to see it since other people are
> excited about it. My concern is code complexity and usability
> challenges, vs punting the problem to the operating system, though
> admittedly there are some cases where that is not possible.
I know some OS's can create file systems inside files. Can you encrypt
such file storage as non-root? I assume that is just too odd.
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