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Zsolt ParragiThe tech preview version of the pg_tde extension for PostgreSQL 16 was released on March 28th, with many improvements compared to our previous MVP release. In addition to lots of bug fixes, the new release supports multi-tenancy and key rotation with a simplified configuration mechanism. Note that the Tech Preview release is not recommended for […]
PG_TDE (PostgreSQL Transparent Data Encryption) is an experimental transparent data encryption access method for PostgreSQL 16, available on GitHub as an extension for vanilla PostgreSQL. Since our previous blog post, Adding Transparent Data Encryption to PostgreSQL with pg_tde: Please Test, it received new features such as TOAST data encryption and HashiCorp Vault support for key storage. […]
Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.30-22 introduces a new authentication plugin, named authentication_fido. With this new plugin, it is possible to perform multi-factor authentication using hardware keys, or single-factor passwordless authentication with the same keys. This new plugin is in technical preview. The plugin works exactly the same as the MySQL Enterprise FIDO authentication plugin, which […]
Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.30-22 introduces several improvements for the LDAP plugin: SASL support, support for fallback servers, and support for LDAP-based authorization. All improvements are in technical preview. A description of the existing plugin features and usage instructions are available in the earlier blog post introducing the LDAP simple plugin, and in the Percona […]
Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.28-20 introduces a new keyring component, component_keyring_kms, which allows using the AWS Key Management Service as a keyring. The component is also included in Percona XtraBackup 8.0.28, allowing backing up databases encrypted with this component. The feature is similar to the AWS keyring plugin included in MySQL Enterprise, but it is […]
The MySQL error log is usually used to store and later analyze error and warning messages, but in some cases, it is also used for high throughput debug messages for analyzing complex issues. These messages take up more space, slow down the server, and also make the error log harder to use for other issues. […]
MySQL allows changing the location of the general log and the slow query log while the server is running by anybody having the SYSTEM_VARIABLES_ADMIN privilege to any location, including appending to existing files. In Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.28-19 we introduced a new system variable, secure-log-path, that can be used to restrict the location of […]
Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.19 includes the experimental simple LDAP authentication plugin, which allows for direct authentication using an LDAP server. Similarly to the data masking plugin added in 8.0.18, this plugin was also added as a community contribution from Francisco Miguel Biete. Authenticating with LDAP In earlier versions, Percona Server for MySQL supported the […]
Starting with Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.17, Percona Server ships with a data masking plugin, using the same API as the MySQL Enterprise Masking and De-identification feature. This plugin was developed by MySQL Enterprise plugin. What is Data Masking? The data masking plugin mentioned above provides easy-to-use methods to hide sensitive data, such as social […]