stored in a core file, which is a process memory dump. You should, therefore, safely delete the memory dump.
You can safely delete files by using the following command:
shred command
Unencrypted data may be written from the database server memory to the operating system's swap area. To prevent leakage of information from the swap area, consider either disabling the use of swap area or encrypting the swap area using a full-disk encryption product.
The content of the server log file is not encrypted. Therefore, in some cases the value of a constant specified in a SQL statement is output to the server log file. To prevent this, consider setting a parameter such as log_min_error_statement.
When executing an SQL function that opens the keystore and modifies the master encryption key, ensure that the SQL statement containing the passphrase is not output to the server log file. To prevent this, consider setting a parameter such as log_min_error_statement. If you are executing this type of SQL function on a different computer from the database server, encrypt the communication between the client and the database server with SSL.
