Re: Hide the code from users postgres

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 22:18 +0100, Dave Page wrote:

> > I have no problem with him trying to protect his hard earned work. I
> > just think he is trying to solve the wrong problem.
>
> It's a real problem faced by many businesses and solved by most
> commercial DBMSs. Of course, it's basically impossible to solve in the
> Open Source world, as there's nowhere to hide a key or obfuscation
> algorithm. If akp geek is able to use EnterpriseDB builds of Postgres,
> then he may want to look at PL/Secure, which will obfuscate his
> pl/pgsql code:
>
> http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pl_secure_standard_server.do

That's interesting... does it just turn it into bytecode?

Joshua D. Drake

>

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