Re: Encryption in pg_dump

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 03:05:35PM -0500, Ron wrote:
> 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.And this 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
toolavailable for same.
 
> > > sorry, no way. The only way you have is to pipe the output of pg_dump through some encryption tool. pg_dump does
notoffer to 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?
> > 
> >     July 20  CAD7GeHRZ3tu8y9VG_0juVK3RQq6r+t6HciguEz_C8Eh85Hmq3A@mail.gmail.com
> >     July 10  CALLD-SGTbu0HCW8NGVg+ycC8PKn9opcbN7aw4CvLj3OVC-hw=Q@mail.gmail.com
> >     July  8  CAFiui6G0sgLoURsK61vmiPR1Amd7PQt82cvgdmZ7+ukdsbV1QQ@mail.gmail.com
> 
> Audit season?

LOL, maybe.  ;-)

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