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Re: storing an explicit nonce

Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>

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From: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Ants Aasma <ants@cybertec.at>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Sasasu <i@sasa.su>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-02-08T12:35:18Z
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Commits

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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.

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:

> Perhaps this is all too meta and we need to work through some specific
> ideas around just what this would look like.  In particular, thinking
> about what this API would look like and how it would be used by
> reorderbuffer.c, which builds up changes in memory and then does a bare
> write() call, seems like a main use-case to consider.  The gist there
> being "can we come up with an API to do all these things that doesn't
> require entirely rewriting ReorderBufferSerializeChange()?"
> 
> Seems like it'd be easier to achieve that by having something that looks
> very close to how write() looks, but just happens to have the option to
> run the data through a stream cipher and maybe does better error
> handling for us.  Making that layer also do block-based access to the
> files underneath seems like a much larger effort that, sure, may make
> some things better too but if we could do that with the same API then it
> could also be done later if someone's interested in that.

My initial proposal is in this new thread:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4987.1644323098%40antos

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Antonin Houska
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