Re: Disk Encryption - Postgresql vs. Oracle - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Disk Encryption - Postgresql vs. Oracle
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Msg-id 29043.1112393159@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Disk Encryption - Postgresql vs. Oracle  (Joseph Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu>)
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Joseph Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu> 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
> with Postgresql...

> Maybe the right way to do it is to just get the OS to encrypt
> everything, and not make postgresql jump through any extra hoops?

Yup, that's what we recommend.  It's more complete and more bulletproof
than anything we'd be likely to invent for ourselves.

            regards, tom lane

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