Re: [ADMIN] Disk Encryption - Postgresql vs. Oracle

2005-04-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Christopher Browne wrote: > Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when pgman@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momj$ > > Wow, nice analysis. Should this be in our documentation somewhere? > > Suggest a suitable section and I'd be more than happy to send in a > patch adding this in. The only place I see pgc

Re: [ADMIN] Disk Encryption - Postgresql vs. Oracle

2005-04-02 Thread Christopher Browne
Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when pgman@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian) wrote: > Wow, nice analysis. Should this be in our documentation somewhere? Suggest a suitable section and I'd be more than happy to send in a patch adding this in. The only place I see pgcrypto referred to (which

Re: [ADMIN] Disk Encryption - Postgresql vs. Oracle

2005-04-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Wow, nice analysis. Should this be in our documentation somewhere? --- Christopher Browne wrote: > In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Brenner) wrote: > > I was talking to someone just recently who was s

Re: [ADMIN] Disk Encryption - Postgresql vs. Oracle

2005-04-01 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Brenner) wrote: > I was talking to someone just recently who was saying that they > were thinking about going with Oracle rather than Postgresql > because Oracle has a their story in place about how to do > disk encryption. So I am of course

Re: [ADMIN] Disk Encryption - Postgresql vs. Oracle

2005-04-01 Thread Tom Lane
Joseph Brenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was talking to someone just recently who was saying that they > were thinking about going with Oracle rather than Postgresql > because Oracle has a their story in place about how to do > disk encryption. So I am of course, looking into how to do it >

Re: [ADMIN] Disk Encryption - Postgresql vs. Oracle

2005-04-01 Thread Goulet, Dick
it's data files as hex encoded data vs. plain ASCII. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- From: Joseph Brenner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 4:43 PM To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: [ADMIN] Disk Encryption - Postgr

Re: [ADMIN] Disk Encryption - Postgresql vs. Oracle

2005-04-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 13:43:01 -0800, Joseph Brenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (As to why you would *care* about disk encryption, I would guess > the scenario is you've got a bunch of guys in the back room > hot-swapping RAID drives, and you'd rather not post armed guards > there to watch

[ADMIN] Disk Encryption - Postgresql vs. Oracle

2005-04-01 Thread Joseph Brenner
I was talking to someone just recently who was saying that they were thinking about going with Oracle rather than Postgresql because Oracle has a their story in place about how to do disk encryption. So I am of course, looking into how to do it with Postgresql... (As to why you would *care* ab