title: How secure is a PostgreSQL database if my server is stolen?
body: <p>If I have a server with a database of top secret data in PostgreSQL and my password is practically impossible to guess (128 character string of all sorts of weird chars, generated by hand). The server password is also practically unguessable.</p>
  <p>Aside from a password guessing, how easy is it to get the data out of this database?</p>
  <h3>Assumptions:</h3>
  <ol>
  <li>Only the DB exists on the server. There is no password in a PHP script or anything like that</li>
  <li>The person who stole the server is a server / DB / hard-drive recovery expert</li>
  <li>I'm not using any hard-drive encryption or anything out of the norm for protection</li>
  <li>I'm using Ubuntu Hardy (latest stable version)</li>
  </ol>
  <p>I'm trying to understand the risks involved with somebody gaining physical access to my server's hard-drives.</p>