Re: Hiding data in postgresql - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tim Landscheidt
Subject Re: Hiding data in postgresql
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Msg-id m3r5l0yogn.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de
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In response to Hiding data in postgresql  (Hector Beyers <hqbeyers@gmail.com>)
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Hector Beyers <hqbeyers@gmail.com> wrote:

> thank you for your replies yesterday on this topic. I have one more question
> though:

> Does someone have any ideas how I can hide data without the meta data
> noticing? To explain further, I would like to save some collection of data
> where the meta-data does not see it. I am trying to do some security through
> obscurity. It is for research purposes.

> Maybe to save populate a table with 1000 rows, but the meta-data only knows
> of about 500 of them? Only on an export of a dump can you find the data
> again.
> [...]

Before delving deeper into this, you should get your termi-
nology straight: What do you mean by "meta-data"? What do
you mean by "export of a dump"? What do you mean by "without
the meta data noticing"?

Tim

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