Re: Key management with tests

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Masahiko Sawada <masahiko(dot)sawada(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Key management with tests
Date: 2021-01-18 15:43:58
Message-ID: 20210118154358.GA18352@momjian.us
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On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 07:50:13PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 7:56 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > I think that's not at all acceptable. I don't mind hashing out details
> > on calls / off-list, but the design needs to be public, documented, and
> > reviewable. And if it's something the community can't understand, then
> > it can't get in. We're going to have to maintain this going forward.
>
> I agree. If the community is unable to clearly understand what
> something is, and why we should have it, then we shouldn't have it --
> even if the reason is that we're too dumb to understand, as Bruce

I am not sure why you are brining intelligence into this discussion.
You have to understand Postgres internals and cryptography tradeoffs to
understand why some of the design decisions were made. It is a
knowledge issue, not an intelligence issue. The wiki page is the result
of those phone discussions.

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