Re: better page-level checksums

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

To: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2022-06-13T22:06:14Z

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Rethink method for assigning OIDs to the template0 and postgres DBs.
- 2cb1272445d2 15.0 landed
pg_upgrade: Preserve database OIDs.
- aa01051418f1 15.0 landed
pg_upgrade: Preserve relfilenodes and tablespace OIDs.
- 9a974cbcba00 15.0 landed
Fix for new Boolean node
- cf925936ecc0 15.0 cited
Improve error handling of HMAC computations
- 5513dc6a304d 15.0 cited
Add macro RelationIsPermanent() to report relation permanence
- 95d77149c535 14.0 landed
Enhance nbtree index tuple deletion.
- d168b666823b 14.0 cited

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 03:03:17PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 2:54 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 02:44:41PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> > > Is that the how block-level encryption feature from EDB Advanced Server does it?
> >
> > Uh, EDB Advanced Server doesn't have a block-level encryption feature.
> 
> Apparently there is something called "Vormetric Transparent Encryption
> (VTE) – Transparent block-level encryption with access controls":
> 
> https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/enhanced-security-edb-postgres-advanced-server-vormetric-data-security-platform
> 
> Perhaps there is some kind of confusion around the terminology here?

That is encryption done in a virtual file system independent of
Postgres.  So, I guess the answer to your question is that this is not
how EDB Advanced Server does it.

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