Re: Oracle and Postgresql

On Sep 15, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> I wasn't kidding up there.  Setting view permissions on plpgsql (or
> any pl code really) would be understandable.  If you're not a super
> user or the owner, you need permission to see it.

Ah, sorry, I parsed that as needing permission to see the code of the  
Pl/pgSQL interpreter.

> But whether it's oracle or postgresql, this is just security through
> obscurity. If you have root access on the server either method would
> be trivial to hack.

Oh, sure.  (Same is true of Oracle, of course.)  I wouldn't use it  
myself, but if this is a feature-checkbox item, that's how you'd need  
to go about doing it.