On 2019-06-17 11:23, Antonin Houska wrote:
> I'm thinking how to teach postmaster to accept FEBE protocol connections
> temporarily, just to receive the key. The user applications like pg_ctl,
> initdb or pg_upgrade would retrieve the key / password from the DBA, then
> start postmaster and send it the key.
>
> Perhaps the message format should be a bit generic so that extensions like
> this can use it to receive their keys too.
>
> (The idea of an unix socket or named pipe I proposed upthread is not good
> because it's harder to implement in a portable way.)
How are the requirements here different from ssl_passphrase_command?
Why do we need a new mechanism?
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