Re: Schema obfuscator for performance question

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Joseph Pravato
<joseph.pravato@nomagic.com> wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
>
> We are having a performance issue with our views in PostgreSQL and based on
> the requirements for assistance you recommend providing the full table and
> index schema besides additional information from this site.
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Query_Questions
>
> We have been unsuccessful in finding a tool to obfuscate the schema before
> providing it for review, is there an open source tool you recommend to use?
>
> Thanks!

Without getting into the ugly business of asking why you'd want to
obfuscate schema, I can imagine a few (wrong) answers, I'll start by
noting that schema transmits meaning in the very names used, so
obfuscation, especially automatic and mindless obfuscation, will make
the problem a lot harder to review, because it will be a lot harder to
understand the schema.

So... I'd suggest, if you need obfuscation, that it should be done
manually, so that you may preserve meaningful names.