Re: Transparent Data Encryption in PostgreSQL?

On 28/01/2021 14:50, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 01:28:04PM +0000, Martin Goodson wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Got a bit of a weird question here : what is the state of transparent data
>> encryption in PostgreSQL? I was under the impression it was on the 'to do'
>> list for PostgreSQL 14 ...
>>
>> https://www.postgresql.org/about/press/faq/
>>
>> Q: What features will 14 have?
>> A: As always, we can't be certain what will go in and what won't; the
>> project has strict quality standards that not all patches can make before
>> deadline. All we can tell you is what's currently being worked on, which
>> includes significant performance improvements due to optimizations in
>> connection handling, continued work on the pluggable storage interface
>> (including plugins such as zheap or zedstore), native TRANSPARENT DATA
>> ENCRYPTION support, continued improvements to parallelism and partitioning,
>> and many more features. By the time 14 is released, though, this list may
>> have changed considerably.
>>
>>
>> ... but a colleague at work is adamant that PostgreSQL has had TDE since
>> 2019.
>>
>> Have I missed a memo somewhere?
>
> It has been worked on since before 2019. I worked on the key management
> part recently, but there was no consensus in the community, so I have
> stopped working on this feature, and I don't know anyone else who is
> currently working on it:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210126225301.GD32305%40momjian.us
>

Thank you very much for the response, it answered my question perfectly.

Regards,

Martin.
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