Re: [PATCHES] Post-special page storage TDE support

From: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David Christensen <david(dot)christensen(at)crunchydata(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Post-special page storage TDE support
Date: 2024-12-27 17:19:58
Message-ID: CAKAnmmLDy6nT-OfHBUwHU6DaQVpqpT_QyWW5DwUZZDyPqTjYWw@mail.gmail.com
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Re-reading this thread, and this has been nagging me:

On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 3:03 PM David Christensen <
david(dot)christensen(at)crunchydata(dot)com> wrote:

> - so why do we need to recompute offsets on every single page? I'd
>> instead
>
> add a distinct offset variable for each feature.
>>
>
> This would work iff there is a single page feature set across all pages in
> the cluster; I'm not sure we don't want more flexibility here.
>

I'm quite skeptical about the usefulness of this; seems to be at best a
footgun to have per-page features. Also, none of the examples given so far
(e.g. encryption, better checksums) are of a non-global nature, so did you
have specific examples in mind?

Cheers,
Greg

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