Re: Key management with tests

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 10:50:37AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> OK, I looked at that and it is good, and I see my patch is missing that.
> Are people looking for me to take the wiki content, expand on it and tie
> it to the code that will be applied, or something else like all the
> various crypto options and why we chose what we did beyond what is
> already on the wiki? I can easily go from what we have on the wiki to
> implementation code steps, but the other part is harder to explain and
> that is why I offered to talk to people via voice.

Just to clarify why voice calls can be helpful --- if you have to get
into "you have to understand X to understand Y", that's where a voice
call works best, because understanding X will require understanding
A/B/C, and everyone's missing pieces are different, so you have to
customize it for the individual.

You can explain some of this in a README, but trying to cover all of it
leads to a combinatorial problem of trying to explain everything.
Ideally the wiki page can be expanded so people can ask and answer all
posted issues, perhaps in a Q&A format. Someone could go through the
archives and post why certain decisions were made, and link to the
original emails.

I have to admit I was kind of baffled that the wiki page wasn't
sufficient, because it is one of the longest Postgres feature
explanations I have seen, but I now think the missing part is tying
the wiki contents to the code implementation. If that is it, please
confirm. If it is something else, also explain.

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