Re: Encryption in pg_dump

On 7/22/20 1:55 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 03:24:16PM +0200, Paul Förster wrote:
>> Hi Vinod,
>>
>>> On 20. Jul, 2020, at 14:40, vinod kale <vinod16895@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Team,
>>>
>>> I am using postgresql 10.8 version in our prod environment. We take dump backup on daily basis of full database.
Andthis dump backup creates in human readable format.
 
>>> My requirement is backup should creates in encrypted format at the time of pg_dump running.
>>> Is there any way or any option available in pg_dump that will creates the backup in encrypted format or any tool
availablefor same.
 
>> sorry, no way. The only way you have is to pipe the output of pg_dump through some encryption tool. pg_dump does not
offerto create encrypted dumps directly using some command line option.
 
> Does anyone know why we are getting so many requests for encrypting
> dumps all of a sudden?
>
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