Re: Security

Ernesto A. Lira Castro writes:

> I'm trying to set login & passwords to my system with Perl DBI for
> Postgresql, but i want to have a field on my Postgres's database
> that can be type password!! is that possible?? i see only fields types
> (Char, integer, long . . .) i want some password to be encrypted.

In contrib/pgcrypto in the source tree there are some digest (hash)
functions (note: digest != encryption) that you might find useful.

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