Re: WIP: plpgsql source code obfuscation

On 28/01/2008, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> Someone along the way suggested doing this as a kind of "wrapper" PL language.
> So you would have a PL language like "obfuscate:plperl" which would obfuscate
> the source code on the way in. Then when you execute a function it would
> deobfuscate the source code and then just pass it to the normal plperl.
>
you can call Deobfuscate proc from any language handler - no problem

> In such a scheme I think you would put the key in an attribute of the
> language. Either in pg_lang or some configuration location which the
> obfuscate:plperl interpreter knows where to find.
>

what is advantage?


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