On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 06:30:50AM +0000, Chris Travers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was re-reading the patches here  and there was one thing I didn't 
> understand.
> 
> There are provisions for a separation of data encryption keys for primary and 
> replica I see, and these share a single WAL key.
> 
> But if I am setting up a replica from the primary, and the primary is already 
> encrypted, then do these forceably share the same data encrypting keys?  Is 
> there a need to have (possibly in a follow-up patch) an ability to decrypt 
> and re-encrypt in pg_basebackup (which would need access to both keys) or is 
> this handled already and I just missed it?

Yes, decrypt and re-encrypt in pg_basebackup would be necessary, or in
the actual protocol stream.

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