Re: Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and encrypted files

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 05:26:33PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> For full-cluster Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), the current plan is
> to encrypt all heap and index files, WAL, and all pgsql_tmp (work_mem
> overflow). The plan is:
>
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Transparent_Data_Encryption#TODO_for_Full-Cluster_Encryption
>
> We don't see much value to encrypting vm, fsm, pg_xact, pg_multixact, or
> other files. Is that correct? Do any other PGDATA files contain user
> data?

Oh, there is also consideration that the pg_replslot directory might
also contain user data.

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