Coming to PostgreSQL: On-disk database encryption

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a popular approach to encrypting data at the storage layer, beefing up database security. While PostgreSQL has steadily climbed in popularity – especially among professional developers – it has so far lacked this enterprise feature, at least in open source.

So claims Percona, an open source database support and services company, which has sought to rectify the situation with its Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) extension for Percona for PostgreSQL.

Currently, the pg_tde extension is part of the open source Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL. It is compatible with PostgreSQL, available under the OSI-approved PostgreSQL License, and managed by the PostgreSQL Global Development Group.

Percona was working toward including the extension in the main PostgreSQL distribution soon, CTO Liz Warner told The Register.

"We've done some work, so it's available right now in Percona Server for PostgreSQL," she said. "It's not available in upstream vanilla PostgreSQL ...