From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Ants Aasma <ants(dot)aasma(at)eesti(dot)ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: WIP: Data at rest encryption |
Date: | 2017-06-15 23:55:13 |
Message-ID: | 20170615235513.GF11450@momjian.us |
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On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 07:51:36PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 07:27:55PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > > I expect the same would happen with the shell-command approach suggested
> > > up-thread and the prompt-on-stdin approach too, they aren't great but I
> > > expect users would still use the feature. As Robert and I have
> > > mentioned, there is a good bit of value to having this feature simply
> > > because it avoids the need to get someone with root privileges to set up
> > > an encrypted volume and I don't think having to use a shell command or
> > > providing the password on stdin at startup really changes that very
> > > much.
> >
> > Understood, but now you are promoting a feature with an admittedly-poor
> > API, duplication of an OS feature, and perhaps an invasive change to the
> > code. Those are high hurdles.
>
> I thought we called it "incremental development". From the opposite
> point of view, would you say we should ban use of passphrase-protected
> SSL key files because the current user interface for them is bad?
>
> I have no use for data-at-rest encryption myself, but I wouldn't stop
> development just because the initial design proposal doesn't include
> top-notch key management.
Yes, but we have to have a plan on how to improve it. Why add a feature
that is hard to maintain, and hard to use.
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