Re: [Proposal] Table-level Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and KeyManagement Service (KMS) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 08:29:32AM -0400, Joe Conway wrote:
> >> Or
> >> maybe key management is really tied into the separately discussed effort
> >> to create SQL VARIABLEs somehow.
> > 
> > Could you elaborate on how key management is tied into SQL VARIABLEs?
> 
> Well, the key management probably is not, but the SQL VARIABLE might be
> where the key is stored for use.

I disagree.  I would need to understand how an extension actually helps
here, because it certainly limits flexibility compared to a shell
command.

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