Re: storing an explicit nonce

On 2021-05-25 17:15:55 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) wrote:
> > We already discussed that there are too many other ways to break system
> > integrity that are not encrypted/integrity-checked, e.g., changes to
> > clog.  Do you disagree?
> 
> We had agreed that this wasn't something that was strictly required in
> the first version and I continue to agree with that.  On the other hand,
> if we decide that we ultimately need to use an independent nonce and
> further that we can make room in the special space for it, then it's
> trivial to also include the tag and we absolutely should (or make it
> optional to do so) in that case.

The page format for clog and that for relation data is unrelated.