Re: Hiding data in postgresql

Hector Beyers <hqbeyers(at)gmail(dot)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