Re: storing an explicit nonce

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 05:02:01PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> For these reasons, if we decide to go in the direction of using a
> non-LSN nonce, I no longer plan to continue working on this feature. I
> would rather work on things that have a more positive impact.  Maybe a
> non-LSN nonce is a better long-term plan, but there are too many
> unknowns and complexity for me to feel comfortable with it.

As stated above, I have no plans to continue working on this feature.  I
am attaching my final patches here in case anyone wants to make use of
them;  it passes check-world and all my private tests.  I have removed
my patches from the feature wiki page:

    https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Transparent_Data_Encryption

and replaced it with a link to this email.

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