Re: Obfuscated stored procedures (was Re: Oracle and Postgresql) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Obfuscated stored procedures (was Re: Oracle and Postgresql)
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Msg-id 10637.1222286905@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Obfuscated stored procedures (was Re: Oracle and Postgresql)  (Andrew Sullivan <ajs@commandprompt.com>)
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Andrew Sullivan <ajs@commandprompt.com> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 08:05:18AM -0700, David Fetter wrote:
>> C is not magic obfuscation gear. ...

> To be fair, one of the points that others are trying to make is not
> "secure this function for real" but "secure this function enough to
> make it a little costly."

Agreed, but there seems no particular need to have such a feature in
core Postgres.  An add-on PL could accomplish that task just as well;
perhaps more so, if you don't make the add-on available to all and
sundry.

            regards, tom lane

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