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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Christophe Pettus <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
Cc: Kai Wagner <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Enquiry about TDE with PgSQL
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:22:22 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>

On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 06:33:54PM +0100, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.

Agreed.  Just to state the obvious, I have never heard of any Postgres
support company discouraging the community from implementing TDE.  In
fact, I have heard them strongly encourage it.

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  Bruce Momjian  <[email protected]>        https://momjian.us
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  Do not let urgent matters crowd out time for investment in the future.

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