On 10/23/2011 06:39 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
On 10/22/2011 11:39 AM, nrdb wrote:
Are you willing to submit a patch for people to review? I am not sure
if the community would want this as backend code or not but it is
definitely something to discuss.
Yes! but I don't know what the procedure is to do that.
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch
I will submit the patch in a few days when I have cleaned it up some
more. Basically it patches the FileRead() and FileWrite() in fd.c to
do the encryption and decryption.
Others might have different ideas.
I thought one way would be to pass the name of a named pipe in with a
command argument and then have some program that asks the user for the
password and writes it to the named pipe.
Any patch you submit will be subject to quite a bit of discussion so
be prepared for that. Also it will have to be portable to Windows.
I have no idea on making it portable to Windows, I very rarely use it
and know nothing about coding on it. The only problem will be in the
actual encryption/decryption functions, and the key setup.
JD
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