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Re: WIP: Data at rest encryption

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Shawn Wang <shawn.wang@highgo.ca>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>, Ants Aasma <ants.aasma@eesti.ee>
Date: 2019-09-03T16:56:15Z
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On 2019-Aug-02, Shawn Wang wrote:

> Hi Antonin,
> It is very glad to see the new patch. I used the public patches a long time ago.
> I did some tests like the stream replication, much data running, temporary files encryption.
> I found that there is an issue in the src/backend/storage/file/encryption.c. You should put block_size = EVP_CIPHER_CTX_block_size(ctx); under the #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING.
> There is some problem to merge your patches to the latest kernel in the pg_ctl.c.

Is a new, fixed version going to be posted soon?  It's been a while.

Also, apologies if this has been asked before, but: how does this patch
relate to the stuff being discussed in
https://postgr.es/m/031401d3f41d$5c70ed90$1552c8b0$@lab.ntt.co.jp ?

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