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  • Overview
    • About TDE
      • How does TDE encrypt data?
      • What’s encrypted with TDE?
      • Why should you use TDE?
    • TDE compatibility
  • Administering
    • Overview
    • Securing the data encryption key
      • Using a passphrase
      • Using a key store
      • Disabling the key wrapping
      • Rotating the data encryption key
    • Using TDE initialization options
    • Working with encrypted files
      • Working with encrypted WAL files
      • Working with encrypted backup files
    • Upgrading a TDE-enabled database
    • Tutorials
      • Creating a database with TDE
      • Enabling TDE on an existing EDB Postgres Advanced Server
      • Upgrading PostgreSQL to EDB Postgres Extended Server while enabling TDE
      • Verifying TDE is enabled
  • Reference
    • Commands affected by TDE
    • initdb TDE options
    • pg_upgrade TDE options
    • Limitations
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About TDE

About TDE#

Transparent data encryption (TDE) is an optional feature supported by EDB Postgres Advanced Server and EDB Postgres Extended Server from version 15.

It encrypts user data stored in the database system.

  • How does TDE encrypt data?
    • How does TDE affect performance?
    • How does TDE encrypt data?
    • How is data stored on disk with TDE?
  • What’s encrypted with TDE?
  • Why should you use TDE?

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