Greetings,
* Andres Freund (andres@anarazel.de) wrote:
> On 2021-05-25 16:34:10 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > The nonce does need to be absolutely unique for a given encryption key and
> > therefore needs to be global in some form.
>
> You can achieve that without a global counter though, by prepending a
> per-relation nonce with some local counter.
>
> I'm doubtful it's worth it though - compared to all the other costs, one
> shared atomic increment is pretty OK price to pay I think.
Yes, I tend to agree.
Thanks,
Stephen
