Re: Key management with tests

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Tom Kincaid <tomjohnkincaid@gmail.com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Masahiko Sawada <masahiko.sawada@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2021-02-01T23:52:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Rethink method for assigning OIDs to the template0 and postgres DBs.

  2. pg_upgrade: Preserve database OIDs.

  3. pg_upgrade: Preserve relfilenodes and tablespace OIDs.

  4. Fix for new Boolean node

  5. Improve error handling of HMAC computations

  6. Add macro RelationIsPermanent() to report relation permanence

  7. Enhance nbtree index tuple deletion.

On Mon, Feb  1, 2021 at 06:34:53PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> * Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 08:23:11AM -0500, Tom Kincaid wrote:
> > > I propose that we meet to discuss what approach we want to use to move TDE
> > > forward.  We then start a new thread with a proposal on the approach
> > > and finalize it via community consensus. I will invite Bruce, Stephen and
> > > Masahiko to this meeting. If anybody else would like to participate in this
> > > discussion and subsequently in the effort to get TDE in PG1x, please let me
> > > know. Assuming Bruce, Stephen and Masahiko are down for this, I (or a volunteer
> > > from this meeting) will post the proposal for how we move this patch forward in
> > > another thread. Hopefully, we can get consensus on that and subsequently
> > > restart the execution of delivering this feature.
> > 
> > We got complaints that decisions were not publicly discussed, or were
> > too long, so I am not sure this helps.
> 
> If the notes are published afterwords as an explanation of why certain
> choices were made, I suspect it'd be reasonably well received.  The
> concern about back-room discussions is more that decisions are made
> without explanation as to why, provided we avoid that, I believe they
> can be helpful.

Well, I thought that was what the wiki was, but I guess not.  I did
remove some of the decision logic recently since we had made a final
decision.  However, most of the questions were not covered on the wiki,
since, as I said, everyone comes with a different need for details.

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