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From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Database level encryption
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:05:13 +0000
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Timothy Madden <terminatorul@gmail.com> wrote:

> [...]
> User authentication should be unrelated to encrypting the database
> owned by that user. You can think of it as if only the owner can ever
> connect to such a database, and his/her password is the encryption
> key, or as if any user that wishes to connect should provide the
> encryption key first, and then the user name and password.

As you seem not to need any of PostgreSQL's features, why
not use SQLite? It seems perfect for your application as far
as you stated it.

Tim




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