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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Martin Goodson <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Transparent Data Encryption in PostgreSQL?
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 09:50:55 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 01:28:04PM +0000, Martin Goodson wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Got a bit of a weird question here : what is the state of transparent data
> encryption in PostgreSQL? I was under the impression it was on the 'to do'
> list for PostgreSQL 14 ...
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/about/press/faq/
> 
> Q: What features will 14 have?
> A: As always, we can't be certain what will go in and what won't; the
> project has strict quality standards that not all patches can make before
> deadline. All we can tell you is what's currently being worked on, which
> includes significant performance improvements due to optimizations in
> connection handling, continued work on the pluggable storage interface
> (including plugins such as zheap or zedstore), native TRANSPARENT DATA
> ENCRYPTION support, continued improvements to parallelism and partitioning,
> and many more features. By the time 14 is released, though, this list may
> have changed considerably.
> 
> 
> ... but a colleague at work is adamant that PostgreSQL has had TDE since
> 2019.
> 
> Have I missed a memo somewhere?

It has been worked on since before 2019.  I worked on the key management
part recently, but there was no consensus in the community, so I have
stopped working on this feature, and I don't know anyone else who is
currently working on it:

	https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210126225301.GD32305%40momjian.us

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