Re: Encrypting a single column

I guess a simpler way to say this is; is there a way we can make a
column in postgres to be encrypted but entirely transparent to the
user?

Could we do this with phgcrypto + some form of trigger or view etc?

--- Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi people,
>
> We need to encrypt an individual column in a table. I've noticed
> that
> pgcrypto can do this.
>
> However we have one problem, our software runs through a closed
> source "connectivity kit" that allows it to use a postgres dbms, so
> our programs cant sent an individual sql statement to give the
> password.
>
> The column we want to encrypt is used in thousands of programs so
> it's hard for us to change all the programs to encrypt / decrypt
> the
> column
>
> Can anyone see any way around this?
>
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