Re: PG secure for financial applications ...

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Micah Yoder <micah(at)yoderdev(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PG secure for financial applications ...
Date: 2008-03-14 13:30:47
Message-ID: 20080314063047.44ee05c1@commandprompt.com
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:00:39 -0600
Micah Yoder <micah(at)yoderdev(dot)com> wrote:

> Maybe it's nuts to consider such a setup (and if you're talking a
> major bank it probably is) ... and maybe not. At this point it's
> kind of a mental exercise. :-)

If you don't have enough control over the application to handle that
type of situation, no database is going to serve your purposes.

Beyond that, PostgreSQL is one of the most flexible database systems
around when it comes to security and my company professionally supports
several financial firms using PostgreSQL as their core database.

Sincerely,

Joshia D. Drake

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