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Martin Goodson <kaemaril@googlemail.com> writes:
> ... but a colleague at work is adamant that PostgreSQL has had TDE since 
> 2019.

There is at least one fork with TDE, which maybe is what your colleague is
thinking of, but it doesn't exist in the community code today.  Various
people are interested in merging the feature.  At this point I'd lay
odds against it being ready for v14, but perhaps it will happen for v15.

			regards, tom lane