Re: Key management with tests - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Key management with tests
Date
Msg-id 20210118154358.GA18352@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Key management with tests  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 07:50:13PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 7:56 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > I think that's not at all acceptable. I don't mind hashing out details
> > on calls / off-list, but the design needs to be public, documented, and
> > reviewable.  And if it's something the community can't understand, then
> > it can't get in. We're going to have to maintain this going forward.
> 
> I agree. If the community is unable to clearly understand what
> something is, and why we should have it, then we shouldn't have it --
> even if the reason is that we're too dumb to understand, as Bruce

I am not sure why you are brining intelligence into this discussion. 
You have to understand Postgres internals and cryptography tradeoffs to
understand why some of the design decisions were made.  It is a
knowledge issue, not an intelligence issue.  The wiki page is the result
of those phone discussions.

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