Re: storing an explicit nonce

vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>

From: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Tom Kincaid <tomjohnkincaid@gmail.com>, 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: 2021-07-14T16:15:12Z
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 Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 2:52 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 05:02:01PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > For these reasons, if we decide to go in the direction of using a
> > non-LSN nonce, I no longer plan to continue working on this feature. I
> > would rather work on things that have a more positive impact.  Maybe a
> > non-LSN nonce is a better long-term plan, but there are too many
> > unknowns and complexity for me to feel comfortable with it.
>
> As stated above, I have no plans to continue working on this feature.  I
> am attaching my final patches here in case anyone wants to make use of
> them;  it passes check-world and all my private tests.  I have removed
> my patches from the feature wiki page:
>
>         https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Transparent_Data_Encryption
>
> and replaced it with a link to this email.

The patch does not apply on Head anymore, could you rebase and post a
patch. I'm changing the status to "Waiting for Author".

Regards,
Vignesh