There's not bulletproof way, in my opinion.
If they copy the whole DB structure *and* the object binaries they'll
have the very same functionalities!
Il Wednesday 31 October 2007 16:13:23 Douglas McNaught ha scritto:
> mgould <mgould@allcoast.net> writes:
> > We are currently migrating from Sybase's ASA 9/10 to PostGres 8.2.4.
> > One of the features that is really nice in ASA is the ability to add
> > the attribute hidden to a Create procedure, Create function and
> > Create trigger. Essentially what this does is encrypt the code so
> > that if anyone or any utility gets into the database they cannot see
> > any of the actual code. This is a great feature for protecting
> > intellectual processing techniques. I don't know if there is anyway
> > to do this in PostGres. Before the hidden feature was added, we had
> > a competitor steal some of our stored procedure processing code. Is
> > there anyway to protect this from happening in PostGres?
>
> The only bulletproof way to do this currently is to write all your
> stored functions in C and load them as a shared library.
>
> -Doug
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