Back in October, before PGConf.EU, I explained the issues impacting the prolonged wait for TDE in PostgreSQL 18. Explanations were needed as users were buzzing with anticipation, and they deserved to understand what caused the delays and what the roadmap looked like. In that blog post I have shared that due to one of the features newly added in 18.0, the Asynchronous IO (AIO), we have decided to give ourselves time until 18.1 has been released to provide a build with TDE. We wanted to ensure best quality of the solution and that takes time.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://percona.community/blog/2025/11/28/tde-is-now-available-for-postgresql-18