Re: Transparent column encryption

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 1:49 PM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> wrote:
> I think this is an interesting idea. I can indeed see use cases for
> e.g. inserting a new row based on another row (where the secret is the
> same).
>
> IMHO that means that we should also bump the protocol version for this
> change, because it's changing the wire protocol by adding a new
> parameter format code. And it does so in a way that does not depend on
> the new protocol extension.

I think we're more or less covering the same ground we did on the
other thread here -- in theory I don't love the fact that we never
bump the protocol version when we change stuff, but in practice if we
start bumping it every time we do anything I think it's going to just
break a bunch of stuff without any real benefit.

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Robert Haas
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