Janning Vygen <vygen@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > pgcrypto does not work for this scenario as far as i know. > > pgcrypto enables me to encrypt my data and let only a user with the > right password (or key or whatever) decrypt it, right? So if i run it > in a test environment without this password the application is broken. > > I still want to use these table columns in my test environment but > instead of real email addresses i want addresses like > random_number@xxxxxxxxxxx. > > You might be right that it is a good idea to additional encrypt this data. Maybe you could change your application so that it doesn't access the critical tables directly and instead define views for them which, based on current_user, either do decryption or return randim strings. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
