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

From: Glyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, 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 14:12:19
Message-ID: 215184.36316.qm@web25807.mail.ukl.yahoo.com
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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.

> Added to TODO under features not wanted:
>
> Incomplete itemObfuscated function source code (not
> wanted)
>
> Obfuscating function source code has minimal
> protective benefits
> because anyone with super-user access can find a way to
> view the code.
> To prevent non-super-users from viewing function source
> code, remove
> SELECT permission on pg_proc.

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