Re: Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and encrypted files

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 12:34 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 12:30:37PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 11:48 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > > Well, I am starting with the things I _know_ need encrypting, and am
> > > then waiting for others to tell me what to add. Cybertec has not
> > > provided a list and reasons yet, that I have seen. This is why I
> > > started this public thread, so we could get a list and agree on it.
> >
> > Well that's fine, but you could also open up the patch and have a look
> > at it. Even if you just looked at which files it modifies, it would
> > enable you to add some important things do your list.
>
> Uh, I am really then just importing what one group decided, which seems
> unsafe. I think it needs a fresh look at all files.

A fresh look at all files is a good idea, but that doesn't making
looking at the work other people have already done a bad idea.

I don't understand the theory that it's useful to have multiple
100+-message email threads about what we ought to do, but that looking
at the already-written code is not useful.

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