Having some experience in the point of sale area, you are right to be
concerned. Before I go to inline points, I just want to say that my
experience is that PostgreSQL does an admirable job reliability-wise in
such environments, but it isn't perfect (no software solution can be) and
the problems t
Hi John,
On 5/10/2013 2:55 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 5/10/2013 2:11 PM, Bexley Hall wrote:
Having designed (regulated) gaming and "grey area" devices (each
handling hard currency), I can tell you that you have to have already
performed a pretty exhaustive threat analysis (e.g., red team, blue
On 5/10/2013 2:11 PM, Bexley Hall wrote:
Having designed (regulated) gaming and "grey area" devices (each
handling hard currency), I can tell you that you have to have already
performed a pretty exhaustive threat analysis (e.g., red team, blue\
team) *before* you start the product's design. If y
Hi Carlos,
On 5/10/2013 6:43 AM, Carlos Henrique Reimer wrote:
We are developing a solution which will run in thousands of small cash till
machines running Linux and we would like to use PostgreSQL but there is a
insecurity feeling regarding the solution basically because these boxes
would be ex
>> Our major concern is related to the write-back issues we can face in this
>> environment.
I agree this is the OS's responsibility. Greg Smith's Postgres: High
Performance book has a lot to say about this, but there's also a lot
you could read online, since it's really a requirement for any
Post
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Carlos Henrique Reimer
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are developing a solution which will run in thousands of small cash till
> machines running Linux and we would like to use PostgreSQL but there is a
> insecurity feeling regarding the solution basically because these boxes
Hi,
We are developing a solution which will run in thousands of small cash till
machines running Linux and we would like to use PostgreSQL but there is a
insecurity feeling regarding the solution basically because these boxes
would be exposed to an insecure environment and insecure procedures like
