Re: Obfuscated stored procedures (was Re: Oracle and Postgresql)

Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)commandprompt(dot)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