| From: | Tim Landscheidt <tim(at)tim-landscheidt(dot)de> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Hiding data in postgresql |
| Date: | 2010-05-25 15:45:44 |
| Message-ID: | m3r5l0yogn.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de |
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Hector Beyers <hqbeyers(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> thank you for your replies yesterday on this topic. I have one more question
> though:
> Does someone have any ideas how I can hide data without the meta data
> noticing? To explain further, I would like to save some collection of data
> where the meta-data does not see it. I am trying to do some security through
> obscurity. It is for research purposes.
> Maybe to save populate a table with 1000 rows, but the meta-data only knows
> of about 500 of them? Only on an export of a dump can you find the data
> again.
> [...]
Before delving deeper into this, you should get your termi-
nology straight: What do you mean by "meta-data"? What do
you mean by "export of a dump"? What do you mean by "without
the meta data noticing"?
Tim
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