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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:33:54 +0100
From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=81lvaro?= Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>, 
	Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>, Kai Wagner <kai.wagner@percona.com>, 
	Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>, 
	pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Enquiry about TDE with PgSQL
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On 2025-Oct-31, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Yes, we have been avoiding the masquerade for years.  The question is
> can we continue.  From the lack of discussion since April 1, 2025, it
> seems the answer is yes.

Maybe, but I think the only reason for this is that some companies are
implementing it locally in their forks or whatever.  I bet there are
many prospective customers that we (the open source Postgres project)
are not reaching because of lack of certifiability in this area.

Can we continue to ignore it?  My impression is that that strategy will
continue to work, perhaps indefinitely.  Is it a good idea?  Of that I
am not so sure.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera               48°01'N 7°57'E  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
"Once again, thank you and all of the developers for your hard work on
PostgreSQL.  This is by far the most pleasant management experience of
any database I've worked on."                             (Dan Harris)
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2006-04/msg00247.php