On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 02:54:56PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Sasasu (i...@sasa.su) wrote: > > A unified block-based I/O API sounds great. Has anyone tried to do this > > before? It would be nice if the front-end tools could also use these API. > > The TDE patch from Cybertec did go down this route, but the API ended up > being rather different which menat a lot of changes in other parts of > the system. If we can get a block-based temporary file method that > maintains more-or-less the same API, that'd be great, but I'm not sure > that we can really do so and I am not entirely convinced that we should > make the TDE effort depend on an otherwise quite independent effort of > making all temp files usage be block based.
Uh, I thought people felt the Cybertec patch was too large and that a unified API for temporary file I/O-encryption was a requirement. Would a CTR-steaming-encryption API for temporary tables be easier to implement? -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com If only the physical world exists, free will is an illusion.