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From Bruce Momjian
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In response to Whole Database or Table AES encryption  (Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 05:21:41PM +0100, Aaron Gray wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way to (virtually) encrypt whole databases or tables with
> AES or other types of encryption ?

You can use storage encryption via the operating system.  Cybertec has a
patch for PG 12 and the community is working on an implementation,
perhaps for PG 16.  You can also do column-level encryption on the
server side via pgcrypto, or on the client side.

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