Re: pulling libpqtypes from queue

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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:48:37AM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:

[...]

> >  I expect you intend to get at least the hooks in, right?
> 
> not likely.  Keep in mind, this is not how we really wanted to do
> things in the first place.  We don't think this is the right strategy
> for integrating libpqtypes with libpq.  It over-complicates things and
> we don't really see a use case outside of libpqtypes.  If a reasonable
> case can be made for putting the hooks in, we will consider it.  Can
> you think of any good reasons for hooking libpq outside of our
> intentions?

Yes, this one comes to mind:
 From: sanjay sharma Subject: Submission of Feature Request : RFC- for Implementing          Transparent Data
Encryptionin Postgres <http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg01231.php>
 

I know that the original poster wanted to encrypt and decrypt things
server-side, but as was noted in the thread this doesn't make that much
sense because the decryption keys must be somehow kept around there.

But for doing it transparently client-side such libpq hooks might come
in handy...

Regards
- -- tomás
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