Re: Hide source code

> On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 04:26:26AM -0300, M?rcio A. Sepp wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking for a way to hide the souce code of my system
> > (functions).
> >
> > In Oracle, I can wrap it. Is there something that I can use to hide
> > and/or wrap my source code?
>
> If you have code that you don't want people to take, use the copyright
> and license system, which works, not the obfuscation system, which is
> amazingly fragile. And besides, what's so embarrassing about this
> code that you don't want people to see it?

This was discusses extensively in the archives about a month ago.
Actually it is possible to 'hide' the source code so that a database
user can't view it (or anything else) in psql by manipulating system
schema permissions.

Regardless of your philosophical standpoint, many larger organizations
will feel uncomfortable with having unprivileged users having access to
all the database procedure source code.

Merlin