Re: Encryption in pg_dump

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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