On 6/12/17 17:11, Ants Aasma wrote:
> I'm curious if the community thinks this is a feature worth having?
> Even considering that security experts would classify this kind of
> encryption as a checkbox feature.
File system encryption already exists and is well-tested. I don't see
any big advantages in re-implementing all of this one level up. You
would have to touch every single place in PostgreSQL backend and tool
code where a file is being read or written. Yikes.
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