| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | nrdb <postgresql(at)butterflystitches(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | postgresql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: database file encryption. |
| Date: | 2011-10-22 19:39:01 |
| Message-ID: | 4EA31BD5.1080207@commandprompt.com |
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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
>>
>> 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.
JD
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