Re: Key management with tests

On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 06:34:53PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> * Bruce Momjian (bruce(at)momjian(dot)us) wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 08:23:11AM -0500, Tom Kincaid wrote:
> > > I propose that we meet to discuss what approach we want to use to move TDE
> > > forward.  We then start a new thread with a proposal on the approach
> > > and finalize it via community consensus. I will invite Bruce, Stephen and
> > > Masahiko to this meeting. If anybody else would like to participate in this
> > > discussion and subsequently in the effort to get TDE in PG1x, please let me
> > > know. Assuming Bruce, Stephen and Masahiko are down for this, I (or a volunteer
> > > from this meeting) will post the proposal for how we move this patch forward in
> > > another thread. Hopefully, we can get consensus on that and subsequently
> > > restart the execution of delivering this feature.
> >
> > We got complaints that decisions were not publicly discussed, or were
> > too long, so I am not sure this helps.
>
> If the notes are published afterwords as an explanation of why certain
> choices were made, I suspect it'd be reasonably well received. The
> concern about back-room discussions is more that decisions are made
> without explanation as to why, provided we avoid that, I believe they
> can be helpful.

Well, I thought that was what the wiki was, but I guess not. I did
remove some of the decision logic recently since we had made a final
decision. However, most of the questions were not covered on the wiki,
since, as I said, everyone comes with a different need for details.

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