Toshi Harada <harada.toshi@po.ntt-tx.co.jp> wrote:
> I am interested in a patch of "WIP: Data at rest encryption".
> This patch("data-at-rest-encryption-wip-2018.06.27.patch") is applied to PostgreSQL 11-beta 2 and it is running.
>
> In the explanation of this patch, since "data stored during logical decoding" is written,
> we tried logical decoding by the test_decoding module, but the following error occurs when creating a slot.
>
>
> pgbench_db=# SELECT * FROM pg_create_logical_replication_slot('my_slot', 'test_decoding');
> ERROR: invalid magic number B419 in log segment 000000020000000000000010, offset 0
> pgbench_db=#
I could not reproduce this error ...
> (Also, if you run "CREATE SUNSCRIPTION" for logical replication from another server, a similar error will occur.)
... but I succeeded for this. The problem was that a separate XLOG reader
callback is used for logical replication and that did not decrypt the XLOG
page. Fixed in the new version of the patch. Do you still see
pg_create_logical_replication_slot() failing?
> Question.
> In "data-at-rest-encryption-wip-2018.06.27.patch", is logical decoding still not implemented?
> Or is there a need for another logical decoding plug-in for "WIP: Data at rest encryption"?
No, there's nothing special about logical decoding.
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