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Re: open source PostgreSQL not supportable? (Was: Challenging SQL Query Problem. Can you solve it?)

From: Justin L. Kennedy <jk289_at_prism.gatech.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:25:40 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <dpmcn4$51n$2@news-int.gatech.edu>


In comp.databases.postgresql DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:
> The laws are intended to make sure that the audit trail prevents system
> administrators and DBAs from making unaudited changes. So root and all
> system/DBA passwords plus physical access to the server.

Once you have root, you pretty much have everything needed to make any unaudited changes you want. How does Oracle solve this problem? For example, given root, what is to stop someone from opening up the tables in a hex editor as they appear on the hard disk?

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Justin Kennedy
Received on Fri Jan 06 2006 - 12:25:40 CST

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