Re: WIP: plpgsql source code obfuscation

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "pgsql-patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WIP: plpgsql source code obfuscation
Date: 2008-01-28 17:05:13
Message-ID: 87wsptq3sm.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

>> 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?

It wouldn't require any core changes. It would be just another PL language to
load which can be installed like other ones. This could be a big advantage
because it doesn't look like there is a lot of support for putting th
obfuscation directly into the core code.

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Gregory Stark
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