Re: [PATCHES] Post-special page storage TDE support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject Re: [PATCHES] Post-special page storage TDE support
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] Post-special page storage TDE support  (David Christensen <david.christensen@crunchydata.com>)
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Re-reading this thread, and this has been nagging me:

On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 3:03 PM David Christensen <david.christensen@crunchydata.com> wrote:
  - so why do we need to recompute offsets on every single page?  I'd instead
  add a distinct offset variable for each feature.

This would work iff there is a single page feature set across all pages in the cluster; I'm not sure we don't want more flexibility here.

I'm quite skeptical about the usefulness of this; seems to be at best a footgun to have per-page features. Also, none of the examples given so far (e.g. encryption, better checksums) are of a non-global nature, so did you have specific examples in mind?

Cheers,
Greg

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