> > While I agree that configuring full disk encryption is not technically
> > difficult, it requires much more privileged access to the system and
> > basically requires the support of a system administrator. In addition,
> > if a volume is not available for encryption, PostgreSQL support for
> > encryption would still allow for its data to be encrypted and as others
> > have mentioned can be enabled by the DBA alone.
>
> Frankly I'm having difficulties imagining when it could be a real
> problem. It doesn't seem to be such a burden to ask a colleague for
> assistance in case you don't have sufficient permissions to do
> something. And I got a strong feeling that solving bureaucracy issues of
> specific organizations by changing PostgreSQL core in very invasive way
> (keeping in mind testing, maintaining, etc) is misguided.
In the same time implementing a plugable storage API and then implementing
encrypted / compressed / whatever storage in a standalone extension using
this API seems to be a reasonable thing to do.
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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev