Re: Downgrade pgsql 17 to pgsql 12 question

On 9/30/25 01:23, Ashish Mukherjee wrote:
> Thank you all for your inputs.
> 
> Well, Percona TDE was leading to the queries being very inefficient / 
> slow after upgrading to pgsql 17. Explain analyze shows that query 
> planning time shoots up crazily. A decision was taken to go back to 

How did you determine that Percona TDE was the issue vs a 5 version jump 
in Postgres?


> Now the consideration is to use some other encryption option for the 
> database which will work fine on pgsql 17. Cybertec's technology is one 
> route, the other is EDB. I am happy to hear experiences of folks here 
> with pgsql encryption options for v17 on large databases (2.5T in our case).

Personally I would verify first that you are not hitting some more 
general issue with the 5 years of changes in Postgres since the last 
release of 12 and current release of 17.

> 
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 5:10 AM Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com 
> <mailto:mmoncure@gmail.com>> wrote:



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