On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 06:33:54PM +0100, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2025-Oct-31, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Yes, we have been avoiding the masquerade for years. The question is
> > can we continue. From the lack of discussion since April 1, 2025, it
> > seems the answer is yes.
>
> Maybe, but I think the only reason for this is that some companies are
> implementing it locally in their forks or whatever. I bet there are
> many prospective customers that we (the open source Postgres project)
> are not reaching because of lack of certifiability in this area.
>
> Can we continue to ignore it? My impression is that that strategy will
> continue to work, perhaps indefinitely. Is it a good idea? Of that I
> am not so sure.
Agreed. Just to state the obvious, I have never heard of any Postgres
support company discouraging the community from implementing TDE. In
fact, I have heard them strongly encourage it.
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