From: Robert Haas Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:57:21 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add link and additional index reference to pgcrypto. X-Git-Tag: REL8_4_5~41 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7f4de11c2990640c58312217775907f5aac57af2;p=postgresql Add link and additional index reference to pgcrypto. Kevin Grittner, with markup adjustments. --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml index 682b4ebb80..746c4f8cea 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + pgcrypto @@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ pgcrypto + + encryption + for specific columns + + The pgcrypto module provides cryptographic functions for PostgreSQL. diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml index 6cd5b7ce60..3c965c2255 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + Server Setup and Operation @@ -1466,8 +1466,9 @@ $ kill -INT `head -1 /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid` The contrib function library - pgcrypto allows certain fields to be stored - encrypted. This is useful if only some of the data is sensitive. + pgcrypto + allows certain fields to be stored encrypted. + This is useful if only some of the data is sensitive. The client supplies the decryption key and the data is decrypted on the server and then sent to the client.