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

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Glyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Jonathan Bond-Caron <jbondc(at)openmv(dot)com>, Postgres General List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Obfuscated stored procedures (was Re: Oracle and Postgresql)
Date: 2008-09-24 15:19:07
Message-ID: 200809241519.m8OFJ7A24587@momjian.us
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David Fetter wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 02:12:19PM +0000, Glyn Astill wrote:
> > I'm not sure what the policy is on putting stuff in the docs, but
> > how about putting that in the relevant place, as well as a note
> > about the other option; using C and SPI.
>
> C is not magic obfuscation gear. Anybody with a debugger can expose
> what it's doing. There have been math papers showing that it's

I bet 'strings' shows all the SQL queries in a C object file too.

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