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Enable Encryption for Disk Spill |
Learn how to enable encryption for disk spill in TiDB. |
When the oom-use-tmp-storage
configuration item is set to true
, if the memory usage of a single SQL statement exceeds the limit of mem-quota-query
setting, some operators can save the intermediate results during execution as a temporary file to the disk and delete the file after the query is completed.
You can enable encryption for disk spill to prevent attackers from accessing data by reading these temporary files.
To enable encryption for the disk spill files, you can configure the item spilled-file-encryption-method
in the [security]
section of the TiDB configuration file.
[security]
spilled-file-encryption-method = "aes128-ctr"
Value options for spilled-file-encryption-method
are aes128-ctr
and plaintext
. The default value is plaintext
, which means that encryption is disabled.