Re: Key management with tests

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Masahiko Sawada <masahiko(dot)sawada(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Key management with tests
Date: 2021-01-12 18:11:06
Message-ID: 20210112181106.b75t5na7cdxno6dm@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2021-01-12 13:03:14 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I think one big question is that, since we are using a streaming cipher,
> do we care about hint bit changes showing to users? I actually don't
> know. If we do, some kind of dummy LSN record might be required, as you
> suggested.

That'd lead to a *massive* increase of WAL record volume. It's one thing
to WAL log hint bit writes once per page per checkpoint. It's another to
do so on every single hint bit write.

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