> Does the law require protection from a determined DBA, or just casual
> viewing by the DBA? *If* it's the latter, you could do something like
> this:
The EU directive (and therefore the laws of indiviual countries) requires
that if someone gets access to your *DATABASE* they cannot get personal
On Saturday, Mar 6, 2004, at 08:39 US/Eastern, Silvana Di Martino wrote:
Making a copy of your data directory while your server is running is
definitely a bad idea. Forget it. Backing up the file system used by a
RDBMS
usually requires to put the server off-line and flush all the
unwritten data
t
Hello,
I am trying to figure out how to get pg_dumpall to work. My ultimate
goal is to get this running as a cron to backup the DBs nightly.
By the way, I am running PostgreSQL 7.2.4 on redhat 7.3.
My problem is with authentication. I think it ultimately has to do with
my pg_hba.conf file.
Silvana Di Martino wrote:
4) What could actually solve our problem is something like the following
scenario. Imagine that postmaster (or pg_ctrl) could accept a new CL
parameter called "pw". This parameter would contain a sequence of
comma-separated databasename/encryption-password pairs. I mean
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Silvana Di Martino wrote:
> 3) This means that you have to manage by yourself all the details of the
> password one-time entry at the RDBMS start-up time, its storing (in RAM,
> only) and its passage to the SQL SELECTs. IMHO, this is still far to satisfy
> our need for a stand
Hi admins
Long ago I was asking about system privilege "create user" and
procedures to create users without superuser rights.
Now I have finished some pgplsql-Procedures for granting this rights to
a normal operator.
You can find them on
http://mypage.bluewin.ch/shinguz/PostgreSQL/skripts/f_cr
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 06:54:54PM +0800, Chen Shaopeng wrote:
> Has anyone gotten ERServer (the async replication server) work on
> Windows and would like to share some ideas?
Not as far as I know. In principle, it should work: the whole thing
except for the setup scripts is written in Java. Yo
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 08:54:07AM +, Silvana Di Martino wrote:
>
> Of course, that's right. Nevertheless, it is hard to imagine anything better
> than master-slave replication as a backup/recovery mechanism. For example,
> how more data would you loose during a file system copy?
This actua
Going on with my evaluation of pgcrypto as a possible solution for our (EU)
privacy law problems, I have to report the following facts:
1) pgcrypto (understandably) supplies just a small collections of server-side
functions, not a general-purpose database-encryption system.
2) This means that
Silvana Di Martino wrote:
Regarding this topic I have a dream: the hyerarchical permission architecture
of OS/400 (and many other IBM OSs for mainframe) ported to Linux. Just imagine
this: you have a omnipotent "root" who can access the machine from the
console only, a whole set of powerful, co
Alle 17:24, sabato 6 marzo 2004, Gorshkov ha scritto:
> When you connect to amazon.com from italy, my understanding is that you're
> (legally) conducting business in the USA, because that's where the
> transaction actually takes place - that's where the servers are.
Well, there are two different
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