Goulet, Dick wrote:
> Hope you don't mind if I disagree. Most OS's that have a tcp/ip
> layer also have a parameter therein called tcp_keep_alive. They also
> set this parameter to infinity. The purpose of tcp_keep_alive is to
> have the OS kernel periodically verify that all tcp/ip connections
Tom Lane wrote:
> Neither of those readings is correct. The correct interpretation is
> that the copyright holders (us and UCB, in the case of Postgres)
> aren't charging any fee. This does not prohibit others from charging
> for their own efforts.
As I said in my original reply, intention has l
Eric Yum wrote:
> http://www.postgresql.org/licence.html
You should get your local legal professional to give an opinion if you
intend to redistribute. One specific area of contention amongst "BSD
license" people is the phrase:
"... for any purpose, without fee, and ..."
Some opine that this mea
Silvana Di Martino wrote:
> Oracle has a system similar to pgcrypto but more sophisticated. I do
> not know if it can use encrypted indexes, encrypted dates and
> encrypted times (it is likely but I did not tried, yet). It stores
> its "global encryption password" into a system table in encrypted
>
Silvana Di Martino wrote:
> Actually, the Italian law is an implementation of a EU directive
> strictly inspired to the existing UK law. It will affect all EU in a
> few years.
Perhaps, given the potential commercial necessities of this for larger
organisations, find out what Oracle and IBM propos
scott.marlowe wrote:
> Oh, spreading misinformation isn't lying? You live in a different
> world than I do.
Again, I apologise if you took my comment so strongly. I can understand when
something that someone works on so hard is critisised. OTOH however, your
original post that I replied to, was v
scott.marlowe wrote:
> I don't know who you think you are, but I've physically tested the
> stuff I'm talking about. Care to qualify what you mean?
I would genuinely be interested in seeing the results and the methodology.
> IDE drives (all the ones I've ever tested) LIE about their write
> cach
scott.marlowe wrote:
> Also, running on SCSI drives will be much faster than running on IDE
> drives if the IDE drives have their caches disabled like they should,
> since they lie otherwise. Since SCSI disks don't usually lie, and are
> designed to handle multiple requests in parallel, they are m
Anagha Joshi wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there any way to know data & time when the row is inserted into a
> table?
A timestamp column with a default value of 'now' ???
This will only work for inserts and not updates.
Peter
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> I have used pg to connect to postgres. However, I have seen a lot of
> people use DBI. Are there any advantages/disadvantages in using one or
the
> other for connecting to postgres via perl. Also, which one is more widely
> used? Thanks for your input.
I have never used Pg but I had a quick
> I just want to encrypt the database to stop others looking at it as it
> will probably be hosted in an environment that I don't have full control
> over. Though, if it is encrypted, the scripts to decrypt it will also be
> on the same system to display information from the database to the
> webp
Perhaps the first question you should be asking and answering is who/what
are you trying to protect your data from ? Are you try to stop unauthorised
people seeing it ? Changing it ? Adding to it ? What ?
Once you do that, the solution tends to direct itself.
rgds,
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Knowledge
> No, not yet. I have a patch against 7.0, but it does not apply. I hope
> to merge it in before 7.1 beta.
Thanks - I'll wait :)
Peter
ilar for a server. In case it is relevant, this is an OpenBSD server.
rgds,
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Peter Galbavy
Knowledge Matters Ltd.
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> Voila! You have yourself an ultra-secure site, as long as you properly
lock
> down your firewall (turn off telnet, ftp, etc.).
Not trying to start a reigious war, but for this sort of thing look at
OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org) Apart from the ongoing code audit, the
transparent filtering br
a
transaction log from a *single* central update server (writer) to
update multiple readers, running in '-F' mode. Not yet tried it.
Regards,
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Knowledge Matters Ltd
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e past but I can't find a clear answer.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Simon.
>
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